Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Release : 2022-11-10
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 844/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Monstrous Things by : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Download or read book Monstrous Things written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. This book was released on 2022-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores the undead and unholy in literature, film, television, and popular culture. Following an introduction to frightful manifestations in media, sections address ghosts, vampires, and monsters individually, and each section includes a broad consideration of the ghost, vampire or monster in American culture. The section dedicated to ghosts examines the "spectral turn" of popular culture and the ghost's relation to justice and mourning, with particular attention to Toni Morrison and Herman Melville. In the vampires section, the author considers the undead bloodsucker's relationship to anti-Semitism, suicide, and cinema. The third section discusses monsters in relation to topics such as global pandemics, terrorism, mass shootings, "stranger danger," and social otherness, with attention to a range of popular culture texts including the films IT and It Follows.