Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:
9781801170277
Series Statement:
Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions Ser.
Content:
Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrousanalyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies, and from a unique interdisciplinary scope tackles the critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do?.
Content:
Cover -- Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous -- Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions -- Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous: Imagining Monsters to Understand our Socio-Political and Psycho-Emotional Realities -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Monsters and the Monstrous -- Imagining Monsters -- Gendered Monsters -- Domestic Monsters -- Note -- References -- Imagining Monsters -- 1. Malign by Design: Imaginatively Visualising Lovecraft and the Aesthetics of Monstrosity -- Abstract -- Monster Maker -- Monstrous Imagination -- Imagining Monsters: Flesh for Cthulhu -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Racial Terror and the Struggle for Freedom in the HBO Series Lovecraft Country -- Abstract -- Manifestations of Racial Terror -- The Struggle for Freedom and Black Women -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Media Makes the Monster: Battered and Abused to Monstrous Killer -- Abstract -- The Barbie and Ken Killers -- Tammy Homolka -- Leslie Mahaffy -- Kristen French -- The End of 'Paradise' -- Social Constructionism: A Theoretical Framework -- The Artful Representation of Karla Homolka -- Battered and Abused -- 'The Deal with the Devil' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Talking Monsters -- Abstract -- References -- Gendered Monsters -- 5. Femicide on the Frontier: Analysing Motives Behind the Femicide Crisis in Ciudad Juàrez -- Abstract -- Background -- Conceptualising the Patriarchy in Relation to Gender Roles, Feminism and Masculinity Conceptualising the Patriarchy and Gen ... -- Feminism and Masculinity -- Murdered for Being Women: Defining and Conceptualising Femicide -- The North American Free Trade Agreement and the Maquila Industry -- Case Study -- Mexico's Femicidal Crisis: Missing and Murdered Women of Ciudad Juárez.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781801170284
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781801170284
Language:
English
