Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialties, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous
- 1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend: Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
- 2 “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil”: Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo
- 3 The Forest and the Trees: The “Woods” as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in Beware the Slenderman
- 4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer: Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep Series
- 5 Monsters in the Forest: “Little Red Riding Hood” Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic
- 6 A Mother's Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
- 7 Documenting the Unheard: The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in The Family
- 8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror: Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory
- 9 An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
- 10 The Folk Horror “Feeling”: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
- Works Cited
- Mediagraphy
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialties, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous
- 1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend: Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
- 2 “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil”: Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo
- 3 The Forest and the Trees: The “Woods” as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in Beware the Slenderman
- 4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer: Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep Series
- 5 Monsters in the Forest: “Little Red Riding Hood” Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic
- 6 A Mother's Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
- 7 Documenting the Unheard: The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in The Family
- 8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror: Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory
- 9 An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
- 10 The Folk Horror “Feeling”: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
- Works Cited
- Mediagraphy
- Index
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- Monstrous Beings and Media CulturesFolk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2023