Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures.
Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rebecca Gibson is adjunct professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Indiana University South Bend and the department of anthropology at American University. James M. VanderVeen is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend.
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Table of Contents Preface Rebecca Gibson Section One: Introduction Chapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and Folklore Freya Fenton Section Two: Social Death/Cyborg Transformation Chapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix's Love, Death & Robots Sarah Stang Chapter 3: "We're All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing": Gender, Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard's The Tea Master and the Detective Alex Claman Chapter 4: "The House Wants Me to Stay": Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in the Haunted House Subgenre Victor Hernández-Santaolalla Section Three: Between Life and Death Chapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Chelsi Slotten Chapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral Panic Holly Walters Chapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities in Sektor Gaza Lev Nikulin Chapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fatal Female: Vampiric Power as Coded Female in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Only Lovers Left Alive Rebecca Gibson Section Four: Reanimation with Sentience Chapter 9: Masculinity, and Not Femininity, As Gendered "Nature" in Cinematic Adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Devi Snively and Agustín Fuentes Chapter 10: The Animated Dead: Reimagining the Beautiful Corpse in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Gillian Wittstock Chapter 11: Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un)dead in Popular Culture Matt Coward-Gibbs and Bethan Michael-Fox Section Five: Reanimation without Sentience Chapter 12: Behind the Door: Sukuma Mitunga (Zombie) Narratives as Social Critique in Northwestern Tanzania Amy Nichols-Belo Chapter 13: Does Death Destroy the Binary? A Look at Gender Roles During Human/Zombie Interaction in the World War Z Universe Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen Afterlife and Afterword James M. VanderVeen
Table of Contents Preface Rebecca Gibson Section One: Introduction Chapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and Folklore Freya Fenton Section Two: Social Death/Cyborg Transformation Chapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix's Love, Death & Robots Sarah Stang Chapter 3: "We're All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing": Gender, Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard's The Tea Master and the Detective Alex Claman Chapter 4: "The House Wants Me to Stay": Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in the Haunted House Subgenre Victor Hernández-Santaolalla Section Three: Between Life and Death Chapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Chelsi Slotten Chapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral Panic Holly Walters Chapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities in Sektor Gaza Lev Nikulin Chapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fatal Female: Vampiric Power as Coded Female in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Only Lovers Left Alive Rebecca Gibson Section Four: Reanimation with Sentience Chapter 9: Masculinity, and Not Femininity, As Gendered "Nature" in Cinematic Adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Devi Snively and Agustín Fuentes Chapter 10: The Animated Dead: Reimagining the Beautiful Corpse in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Gillian Wittstock Chapter 11: Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un)dead in Popular Culture Matt Coward-Gibbs and Bethan Michael-Fox Section Five: Reanimation without Sentience Chapter 12: Behind the Door: Sukuma Mitunga (Zombie) Narratives as Social Critique in Northwestern Tanzania Amy Nichols-Belo Chapter 13: Does Death Destroy the Binary? A Look at Gender Roles During Human/Zombie Interaction in the World War Z Universe Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen Afterlife and Afterword James M. VanderVeen
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