Cristina Moreno-Almeida

Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigating the grotesque aesthetics of a postdigital era, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque offers a fresh and innovative approach to examining informal politics, monstrous aesthetics, and digital media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198930891
• Artikelnr.: 72264150

Autorenporträt

Dr. Cristina Moreno-Almeida is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Arabic Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow at the Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has worked at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and the Middle East Centre and the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Her research interests lie at the intersection of aesthetics, politics, and cultural production. She has published on rap music, memes, the politics of resistance, nationalism, and online far-right cultures. She is the Principal Investigator of the UKRI (ERC nominated) project 'Digital Al-Andalus: Radical Perspectives Of and Through Al-Andalus' (2023-2024) which looks at the melding of historical episodes, nostalgia for lost empires, cultural difference, and violent actions on digital media.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Transliterations
Table 1: Transliteration of Arabic Letters
1: Introduction
Part 1: The Poetics of Digital Horror
2: The Digital Grotesque
3: The Case for (Decolonial Horror)
Part 2: Stories of the Undead
4: Animating the Living Dead
5: Policing the Borders of Abnormality
Part 3: Home Wreckers
6: Diaries of a Monstrous Woman
7: Dis-Meme-Bering the Nation
Part 4: Desiring the Grotesque
8: Monstrous Speech
9: Ghosts of a 'Cool' Past
10: Conclusion: The Unbearable Afterlives of Memes
Bibliography
Index