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Monsters and the monstrous : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / edited by Niall Scott.

Other author/creatorScott, Niall.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Description228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and filmography (page 147).
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019275239
ISBN9789042022539 (pbk.)
ISBN9042022531 (pbk.)
Standard identifier# 99819652982
Standard identifier# 99819449104

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