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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures : Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality / ed. by Allison Craven, Jessica Balanzategui.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Horror and Gothic Media Cultures ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048552832
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2454 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media -- 1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend -- 2 “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil” -- 3 The Forest and the Trees -- 4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer -- 5 Monsters in the Forest -- 6 A Mother’s Milk -- 7 Documenting the Unheard -- 8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror -- 9 An Uncommon Ancestor -- 10 The Folk Horror “Feeling” -- Works Cited -- Mediagraphy -- Index
Summary: Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures 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. The essays explore how combinations of vernacular and institutional creative processes shape the folkloric and/or folkoresque attributes of monstrous beings, their popularity, and the contexts in which they are received. While it focuses on 21C permutations of folk monstrosity, the collection is transhistorical in approach, featuring chapters that focus on contemporary folk monsters, historical antecedents, and the pre-C21st art and media traditions that shaped enduring monstrous beings. The collection also illuminates how folk monsters and folk “horror” travel across cultures, media, and time periods, and how iconic monsters are tethered to yet repeatedly become unanchored from material and regional contexts.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media -- 1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend -- 2 “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil” -- 3 The Forest and the Trees -- 4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer -- 5 Monsters in the Forest -- 6 A Mother’s Milk -- 7 Documenting the Unheard -- 8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror -- 9 An Uncommon Ancestor -- 10 The Folk Horror “Feeling” -- Works Cited -- Mediagraphy -- Index

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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures 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. The essays explore how combinations of vernacular and institutional creative processes shape the folkloric and/or folkoresque attributes of monstrous beings, their popularity, and the contexts in which they are received. While it focuses on 21C permutations of folk monstrosity, the collection is transhistorical in approach, featuring chapters that focus on contemporary folk monsters, historical antecedents, and the pre-C21st art and media traditions that shaped enduring monstrous beings. The collection also illuminates how folk monsters and folk “horror” travel across cultures, media, and time periods, and how iconic monsters are tethered to yet repeatedly become unanchored from material and regional contexts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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