Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures

Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality
Herausgeber: Balanzategui, Jessica; Craven, Allison

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the 21C revitalization of folk as both a cultural formation and aesthetic mode.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9789463726344
• ISBN-10: 9463726349
• Artikelnr.: 69296747

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jessica Balanzategui is Senior Lecturer in Media at RMIT, before which she was Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema (Amsterdam UP, 2018), the founding editor of Amsterdam University Press' book series, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures. Allison Craven is Associate Professor of English and Screen Studies at James Cook University. She publishes on fairy tale and Gothic narrative, and Australian cinema. She is the author of Fairy Tale Interrupted: Feminism, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema (2017); and Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies (2016). She is an editor of Anthem Film and Culture series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialities,
Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous (Allison Craven and
Jessica Balanzategui), Chapter One - The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend:
Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
(Jessica Balanzategui), Chapter Two - Every Imaginable Invention of the
Devil: Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo (Karen
Horsley), Chapter Three - The Forest and the Trees: The Woods as
Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in
Beware the Slenderman (Naja Later), Chapter Four - Mark Duplass as
Mumbelgore Serial Killer: Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep
series (Andrew Lynch), Chapter Five - Monsters in the Forest: 'Little Red
Riding Hood' Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic (Cristina
Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill), Chapter Six - A Mother's Milk:
Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror (Emma Maguire),
Chapter Seven - Documenting the Unheard: The Poetics of Listening and
Empathy in The Family (Stephen Gaunson), Chapter Eight - Reimagining the
Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror: Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and
Cultural Memory (Andrew Ng), Chapter Nine - An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous
Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip (Allison Craven), Chapter Ten
- The Folk Horror Feeling: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
(Jessica Balanzategui and Allison Craven).