Speaking of Monsters A Teratological Anthology [Hardcover]

Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.Introduction: On Monstrosity and Multiculturalism - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart and John Edgar Browning PART 1: GENERAL THEORIES OF MONSTROSITY Monster Culture (Seven Theses) - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Dread, Taboo, and The Thing (1982): Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film - Stephen Prince Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings - No?l Carroll Our Vampires, Our Neighbors - Ken Gelder 'Psychological Thriller': Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle - Mark Jancovich PART 2: TERATOLOGIES OF NATIONALITY AND RACE Monsters in the Literary Traditions of Asia: A Critical Appraisal - Andrew Hock-Soon Ng Slayer as Monster in Blood+ (2005-2006) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) - Margaret L. Carter 'Shapeless Deformity': Monstrosity, Visibility, and Racial Masquerade in Thomas Grattan's Cagot's Hut (1823) - Daniel Novak PART 3: IN BETWEEN FEAR AND DESIRE Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-As-Monster Flick - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart and David Frank Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies - Jason C. Bivins An Age of Mechanical Destruction: Power Tools and the Monstrous in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Films - Ian Conrich PART 4: QUEER THEORY AND BOUNDARY CROSSINGS 'Way Too Gay to Be Ignored?': The Production and Reception of Queer Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century - Harry Benshoff Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror Flick - Judith ('Jack') Halberstam PART 5: CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, AND TERATOLOGIES: BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE REEL Stage Four: Virulency - Lonnie H. Athens Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer - CarolinlCf