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Full Description
Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture.
This collection of new essays covers 150 years of enduringly popular Gothic monsters who have shocked and horrified audiences in literature, film and comics. The contributors unearth forgotten monsters and reconsider familiar ones, examining the audience taboos and fears they embody.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Sharla Hutchison and Rebecca A. Brown)
Part I: Forgotten Monsters and Social Unrest
"She has a parasite soul!" The Pathologization of the Gothic Monster as Parasitic Hybrid in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Richard Marsh's The Beetle and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite (Emilie Taylor-Brown )
Marie Corelli's Ziska: A Gothic Egyptian Ghost Story (Sharla Hutchison)
The Queer God Pan: Terror and Apocalypse, Reimagined (Mark De Cicco)
Attack of the Mushroom People: Ishirô Honda's Matango and William Hope Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night" (Anthony Camara)
Part II: Monstrous Violations of Private Life
Through the Eyes of the Monster: Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love" (Jameela F. Dallis)
Re-Vamping the Early 1960s: Freakish Vampires and Monstrous Teens in Richard Laymon's The Traveling Vampire Show (Rebecca A. Brown)
Gothic Commodification of the Body and the Modern Literary Serial Killer in Child of God and American Psycho (Christopher Coughlin)
Rocking and Reeling through the Doors of Miscreation: Disequilibrium in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (Susan Poznar)
Part III: Millennial Monsters
"I think I am a monster": Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching and the Postmodern Gothic (Bianca Tredennick)
"Madness and monstrosity": Notions of the Gothic and Sublime in Comics Adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft (Rebecca Janicker)
The Monster of Massification: A Serbian Film (L. Andrew Cooper)
"Bears that dance, bears that don't": Aggression, Civilization and the Gothic Bear (Julie Wilhelm and Steven J. Zani)
About the Contributors
Index
