Picart C.J.S., Browning J.E. (eds.) Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology

L.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 317 p.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: Monstrosity and MulticulturalismMonster Culture (Seven Theses)(Extract)
Dread, Taboo, and the Thing (1982): Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film (extract)
Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings (extract)
Our Vampires, Our Neighbors
“Psychological Thriller”: Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror CycleMonsters in the Literary Traditions of Asia: A Critical Appraisal
Slayer as Monster in Blood+ (2005–2006) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
“Shapeless Deformity”: Monstrosity, Visibility, and Racial Masquerade in Thomas Grattan’s CAGOT’S HUT (1823)Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-as-Monster Flick (extract)
By Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies
An Age of Mechanical Destruction: Power Tools and the Monstrous in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Films“Way Too Gay to be Ignored”: The Production and Reception of Queer Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror FlickStage Four: Virulency (Extract)
Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer (Extract)
What Makes Stalking Monsters so Monstrous, and how to Survive Them?
Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams“Nature Abhors Normality”: Theories of the Monstrous from Aristotle to The X-Files(1993–2002)
Monster Spawn of Animal Experimentation in the Early Work of H. G. Wells: On the Containment of Psychopathic Violence as Preliminary to the Onset of the Capacity for MourningWhy Is the Tension So High? The Monstrous Feminine in (Post)Modern Slasher Films
Blood and Bitches: Sexual Politics and the Teen Female Lycanthrope in Young Adult FictionThe Queer Ethics of Monstrosity
Reopening the Question of the Human and the Animal (Extract)
Where Reality and Fantasy Meet and Bifurcate: Holocaust Themes in Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), X-Men (2000), and V (1983)