Monstrous beings and media cultures

• Titel: Monstrous beings and media cultures
• Titelzusatz: folk monsters, im/materiality, regionality
• Mitwirkende: Balanzategui, Jessica [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Craven, Allison [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Jessica Balanzategui and Allison Craven
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 306 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Horror and gothic media cultures
• ISBN: 978-94-6372-634-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ungeheuer / (s)Volksglaube / (s)Künste / (s)Medien / (s)Popkultur / (z)Geschichte
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Monstrous beings and media cultures. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (308 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1903526191

Abstract

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 twenty-first century 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 twenty-first-century permutations of folk monstrosity, the collection is transhistorical in approach, featuring chapters that focus on contemporary folk monsters, historical antecedents, and the pre-twenty-first century 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.