MONSTER THEORY
About This Zine
We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors… > more aboutLATEST ACTIVITY ▸
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Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural | Ha... Markoff Chaney
The Gothic, Romanticism’s gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies…
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‘The Horror Comes from within Man’: David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous ... Markoff Chaney
Helena Bassil-Morozow PhD, is a cultural studies theorist and film scholar. This post is a copy of her talk given…
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Killing Creativity: Why Kids Draw Pictures of Monsters & Adults... Markoff Chaney
What's the Big Idea? The Monster Engine is one of the best ideas I’ve come across. It’s a book,…
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Analysis of Grendel Grendel Grendel through Monster Theory | by Ste... Markoff Chaney
The cinematic rendition of Beowulf, Grendel Grendel Grendel, provides an enlightening perspective on the monster, Grendel, by elucidating the…
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Razors to the Heart: William Shakespeare and Horror Fiction | Weird... Markoff Chaney
(A shot from Julie Taymor’s Titus Adronicus) by Matthew Pridham Over the course of his career, William Shakespeare…
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Language And Monsters | LA Review of Books Markoff Chaney
China Miéville is in it for the monsters, and for the philosophy of language. China Miéville Embassytown Del…
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International community: Zombie apocalypse not likely | Scholars an... Markoff Chaney
Daniel Drezner’s visit to Graceland a few years back taught him something important about writing about zombies. Fellow tourists seemed…
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