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

Monstrous Beings of 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 revitalizatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Horror and Gothic Media Cultures ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of 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