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03788aam a22003738i 4500 001 CA59C40868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200318010024 008 190613t20202020mnua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019023555 020 $a 1517905257 020 $a 9781517905255 035 $a (OCoLC)1111637828 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d MNG $d BCO $d SYB $d SILO 041 1 $a ger $a ger $h und $h jpn $h und 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GR825 $b .M654 2020 082 00 $a 001.944 $2 23 245 04 $a The monster theory reader / $c Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, editor. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 560 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 520 $a "Keeping pace with contemporary Western culture's fascination with monsters, monster theory has attempted to explore the significance of monsters in different genre, media, and cultural contexts; complicating this project however has been the absence of a single volume collecting in one place central approaches and significant works. Monster Theory: A Reader will address this gap and bring together many of the scattered articles, essays, and book chapters theorizing monsters and monstrosity, thereby making the volume extremely useful for researchers and ideal for course adoption for classes involving a focus on monsters"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Includes a passage in German. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Introduction : $g Introduction : $t Posthuman teratology / $r Patricia MacCormack. $t Monster culture (seven theses) / $r Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- $t The uncanny / $r Sigmund Freud -- $t The uncanny valley / $r Masahiro Mori -- $t Approaching abjection / $r Julia Kristeva -- $t An introduction to the American horror film / $r Robin Wood -- $t Fantastic biologies and the structures of horrific imagery / $r NoeÌl Carroll -- $t Parasites and perverts : an introduction to gothic monstrosity / $r Jack Halberstam -- $t Monstrous strangers at the edge of the world : the monstrous races / $r Alexa Wright -- $t Blood, Jews, and monsters in medieval culture / $r Bettina Bildhauer -- $t Horror and the monstrous-feminine : an imaginary abjection / $r Barbara Creed -- $t The monster and the homosexual / $r Harry Benshoff -- $t The undead : a haunted whiteness / $r Annalee Newitz -- $t Intolerable ambiguity : freaks as/at the limit / $r Elizabeth Grosz -- $t Monsters and the moral imagination / $r Stephen T. Asma -- $t Introduction to religion and its monsters / $r Timothy Beal -- $t The self's clean and proper body / $r Margrit Shildrick -- $t Haunting modernity : Tanuki, trains, and transformation in Japan / $r Michael Dylan Foster -- $t Invisible monsters : vision, horror, and contemporary culture / $r Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- $t Monster, terrorist, fag : the war on terrorism and the production of docile patriots / $r Jasbir K. Puar and Amit S. Rai -- $t Zombie trouble : zombie texts, bare life, and displaced people / $r Jon Stratton -- $t Beasts from the deep / $r Erin Suzuki -- $t Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / $r Anthony Lioi -- $t The promises of monsters : a regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others / $r Donna Haraway -- $t Posthuman teratology / $r Patricia MacCormack. 650 0 $a Monsters in popular culture. 650 0 $a Conformity. 650 7 $a Monsters in popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02009280 776 08 $i Online version: $t A monster theory reader $d Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020. $z 9781452960401 $w (DLC) 2019023556 700 1 $a Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, $e contributor. $e contributor. 941 $a 2 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041826.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013740.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA59C40868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search