Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality

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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures

Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality

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Edited by Jessica Balanzategui, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Allison Craven, James Cook University, North Queensland

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048552832
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048552832

Series:: Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
Subjects:: Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication

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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the twenty-first century revitalization of 'folk' as both a cultural formation and aesthetic mode. The essays explore how combinations of vernacular and institutional creative processes shape the folkloric and/or folkoresque attributes of monstrous beings, their popularity, and the contexts in which they are received.

While it focuses on twenty-first-century permutations of folk monstrosity, the collection is transhistorical in approach, featuring chapters that focus on contemporary folk monsters, historical antecedents, and the pre-twenty-first century art and media traditions that shaped enduring monstrous beings. The collection also illuminates how folk monsters and folk 'horror' travel across cultures, media, and time periods, and how iconic monsters are tethered to yet repeatedly become unanchored from material and regional contexts.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Figures
pp 7-8

Acknowledgements
pp 9-10

Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialties, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous
pp 11-32

1 - The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend: Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
pp 33-62

2 - “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil”: Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo
pp 63-80

3 - The Forest and the Trees: The “Woods” as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in Beware the Slenderman
pp 81-102

4 - Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer: Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep Series
pp 103-120

5 - Monsters in the Forest: “Little Red Riding Hood” Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic
pp 121-144

6 - A Mother's Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
pp 145-172

7 - Documenting the Unheard: The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in The Family
pp 173-190

8 - Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror: Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory
pp 191-216

9 - An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
pp 217-240

10 - The Folk Horror “Feeling”: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
pp 241-268

Works Cited
pp 269-296

Mediagraphy
pp 297-302

Index
pp 303-306

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