Monsters in society : : an interdisciplinary perspective / / edited by Andrea S. Dauber.

• TeilnehmendeR: S. Dauber, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Clones as Human Monsters: Looking for Normality in the Age of Cloning / Stefan Halft -- Grimm Visions: The Humanised Monster in Contemporary Fairy Tale Adaptations / Shawn Edrei and Meyrav Koren-Kuik -- The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Changing Face of the Monster / Simon Bacon -- The Devil Whisperer: Animality as a Path to Taming the Monster in The Exorcist / Marcia Heloisa Amarante Gonçalves -- It’s Not All about Snow White: The Evil Queen Isn’t That Monstrous After All / Cristina Santos -- True Blood: Monsters and Sexuality: Too Much of the Same Thing / Veronica Popp -- Parents Who Kill: How Gender Turns Some into Monsters and Others into Victims in Print Media -- Reality Hidden Within: An Analysis of Kerime Nadir’s Dehşet Gecesi / Sima Imsir Parker -- Ghost, Spirits and Christian Denominational Politics: A Case from Fiji / Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- All in the Mind: Fin de Siècle Psychological Vampire Fiction, Powers of Mind Control and Mesmerism / Beverley Dear -- The Other(s) Uncontemplated: Monsters of the Other Side / Peyo Karpuzov -- Godzilla: Mythical Roots and Echoes of the Monster within the Japanese Imaginary World / Julien Bernardi-Morel -- Blurred Boundaries and Monstrous Inscriptions in Children’s Imaginative Play / Rachel Rosen -- Developing Co-Dependence between Monsters and Children in Animated Feature Films / Mark Chekares -- Monster Got Your Tongue? Language and Visual Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein / Lauren Albright -- American Horror Story: Asylum and the Power of the Mad Monster / Jessica Rosenberg , Samuel Rosenberg and Adrienne Rosenberg -- Marginal Profits through Monstrosity: Video Representations of Caliban and Nicki Minaj / Sarah Jensen.