Monsters and the monstrous myths and metaphors of enduring evil / edited by Niall Scott.
| Other author | Scott, Niall. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007. |
| Description | 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | At the interfaces, probing the boundaries ; 38 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 38. ^A586944 |
| Contents | Monstrous origins : histories from the deep and transformed humans (where ever they come from, they keep coming) -- "Monster sewers" : experiencing London's main drainage system / Pual Dobraszczyk -- Ontological anxiety made flesh : the zombie in literature, film and culture / Kevin Alexander Boon -- The zombie as barometer of cultural anxiety / Peter Dendle -- The monster and the political (once they get into politics you can't get rid of them) -- Dracula as ethnic conflict : the technologies of "humanitarian intervention" in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo / Neda Atanasoski -- Kultur-terror : the composite monster in Nazi visual propaganda / Kristen Williams Backer -- The anarchist as monster in fin-de-siècle Europe / Elun Gabriel -- Familial monsters (maybe some of them are regular folk like you and me) -- Family, race, and citizenship in Disney's Lilo and Stitch / Emily Cheng -- The enemy within : the child as terrorist in the contemporary American horror fillm / Colette Balmain -- 'Monstrous mothers' and the media / Nicola Goc -- Of monsters, masturbators and markets : autoerotic desire, sexual exchange and the cinematic serial killer / Greg Tuck -- Miscellaneous monsters (they can be evil, male, female, but most importantly beware, they can be cute.) -- Nobody's meat : freedom through monstrosity in contemporary British fiction / Ben Barootes -- God hates us all : Kant, radical evil and the diabolical monstrous human in heavy metal / Niall Scott -- Monstrous/cute : notes on the ambivalent nature of cuteness / Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and filmography (page 147). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019275239 |
| ISBN | 9789042022539 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9042022531 (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 99819652982 |
| Standard identifier# | 99819449104 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |