Monstrous beings and media cultures : folk monsters, im/materiality, regionality /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Balanzategui, Jessica (Editor), Craven, Allison (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
Series:	Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
Subjects:	Monsters > Folklore. Monsters in mass media. Monsters in popular culture. Film: styles and genres. Classic horror and ghost stories. PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology. Horror and supernatural fiction. Folklore, myths and legends. Mythical and legendary beings, monsters and creatures. Film, Media, and Communication FMC Cultural Studies CULTURAL Interdisciplinary Studies INTERDISC Media Studies MEDIA Psychology PSYCH Monsters, folk, immateriality, regionality, folkloresque, Gothic Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialities, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous (Allison Craven and Jessica Balanzategui) Chapter One
The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend: Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious (Jessica Balanzategui) Chapter Two
Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil: Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo (Karen Horsley) Chapter Three
The Forest and the Trees: The Woods as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in <cite>Beware the Slenderman</cite> (Naja Later) Chapter Four
Mark Duplass as Mumbelgore Serial Killer: Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the <cite>Creep</cite> series (Andrew Lynch) Chapter Five
Monsters in the Forest: 'Little Red Riding Hood' Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic (Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill) Chapter Six
A Mother's Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror (Emma Maguire) Chapter Seven
Documenting the Unheard: The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in <cite>The Family</cite> (Stephen Gaunson) Chapter Eight
Reimagining the <cite>Pontianak</cite> Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror: Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory (Andrew Ng) Chapter Nine
An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip (Allison Craven) Chapter Ten
The Folk Horror "Feeling": Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult (Jessica Balanzategui and Allison Craven)