New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index.
- Introduction: on monstrosity and multiculturalism / Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning — GENERAL THEORIES OF MONSTROSITY. Monster Culture / 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 / Noel Carroll — Our Vampires, Our Neighbors / Ken Gelder — Psychological Thriller : Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle / Mark Jancovich — 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 — IN BETWEEN FEAR AND DESIRE. Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-As-Monster Flick / Caroline Joan 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 — 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 Halberstam — CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, AND TERATOLOGIES: BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE REEL. Stage Four: Virulency / Lonnie H. Athens — Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer / Caroline Joan S. Picart and Cecil E. Greek — What Makes Stalking Monsters So Monstrous, and How to Survive Them / Ŏrīt Kāmír — Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams / Caroline Joan S. Picart — THE BIOLOGICAL MONSTROUS AND GENDER: THE HUMAN-ANIMAL-MACHINE DIVIDES. Nature Abhors Normality : Theories of the Monstrous from Aristotle to The X-Files (1993-2002) / Kathleen Long — Monster Spawn of Animal Exp
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