Monstrous Possibilities

The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror

Amanda Howell, Lucy Baker (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 200 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-12843-1 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the 'monstrous feminine' has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that she named 'the monstrous-feminine' has, decades later, 'embarked on a life of her own'. Focused on this altered and renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an international array of recent and contemporary screen entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social media-based creations of horror fans working as 'pro-sumers'. In this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one of its distinctive products.

Amanda Howell is an expert on contemporary American cinema, television, and screen cultures, her research focusing on gender, genre, and screen aesthetics. She is the author of A Different Tune: Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action (2015), which explores the way that contemporary screen representations of masculinity combine American cinema's long-standing investment in violence-as-spectacle with similarly body-focused pleasures of contemporary youth music, to produce audio-visual representations of male difference. Lucy Baker received her doctorate from the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Griffith University, Australia, in 2018, where she teaches across fields of sociology, cultural and media studies. Her research focuses primarily on adaptations, gender, and fans; her work has been published in journals including Continuum, Journal of Girlhood Studies, and The Journal of Fandom Studies.

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Monstrous-Feminine Protagonist in Twenty-First-Century Screen Cultures.- Part I: Othered Mothers.- Chapter 2: Her Monster, Her Self: Amelia Sorts a Few Things Out in The Babadook.- Chapter 3: Hungry, Unruly and Bold: A Sitcom Mom's Zombie Makeover in Santa Clarita Diet.- Part II: Reimagining the Girl.- Chapter 4: 'I am That Very Witch': Claiming Monstrosity, Claiming Desire in The Witch.- Chapter 5: 'Not Yours Any More': The Monstrous-Feminine Bildungsroman of The Girl with All the Gifts.- Chapter 6: Resistant Girl Monstrosity and Empowerment for Tweens: Monster High and Wolfblood.- Part III: From Fragments of the Old.- Chapter 7: A Badass in Bad City: The Interstitial Artist and Monstrous Self-fashioning in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.- Chapter 8: Rage Is a Monster: Lily Frankenstein Takes Back the Night in Penny Dreadful.- Part IV: Cult Fandoms and Fan Productions.- Chapter 9: 'We are the Weirdos, Mister': Monstrous Performativity, Resistant Femininity and Cult Fandoms of The Craft, Ginger Snaps and Jennifer's Body.- Chapter 10: From Monstrous Girlhood to Empowered Adulthood: Melissa Hunter's Adult Wednesday Addams Web Series.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	XI, 200 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	406 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	21st Century Cinema • Abject • Cinema • Female Monster • Feminine • Horror • Screen Culture
ISBN-10	3-031-12843-5 / 3031128435
ISBN-13	978-3-031-12843-1 / 9783031128431
Zustand	Neuware