Tag: Monstrous

Free Download Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It by Jeremy Corbyn
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 0745350364 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.96 MB
‘Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity’s urge to commit suicide. Read it!’ Yanis Varoufakis, economist and politician

Free Download Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed
English | July 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 0367478161 | 178 pages | True EPUB | 0.94 MB
This follow-up to the classic text of The Monstrous-Feminine analyses those contemporary films which explore social justice issues such as women’s equality, violence against women, queer relationships, race and the plight of the planet and its multi-species.

Free Download Mary Ainslie, "Contemporary Thai Horror Film: A Monstrous Hybrid "
English | ISBN: 147448445X | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Free Download Heather Macumber, "Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation "
English | ISBN: 1978703031 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book reads Revelation through the lens of the monster. Using monster theory, Heather Macumber approaches the cosmic beings in John’s Apocalypse as other and monstrous regardless of whether they are found in heaven or the abyss, with significant attention paid to the monstrous body and how it causes both unease and wonder. Intertwined with descriptions of cosmic monsters, this book also interrogates the role of John as a maker of horror stories, who casts his opponents as the other and monstrous. Despite the tendency to view John and the heavenly creatures as the heroes of this apocalyptic tale, Macumber aims to recover their own liminal and hybrid characteristics that mark them as monstrous.

Free Download Barbara Creed, "The Monstrous-Feminine Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0367209454 | 2023 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 23 MB
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.

Free Download Nicole C. Dittmer, "Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 "
English | ISBN: 1666900796 | 2022 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 569 KB + 2 MB
Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female "monster" figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immaterial aspects of fictional women, and blurs the distinction between nature-culture. Blending intertextual disciplines of medical sciences, ecofeminism, and fiction, she exposes female monstrosities as material and semiotic figurations. This book, then, identifies how women in the Victorian Gothic are informed by the entanglement of both immaterial discourses and material conditions. When repressed by social customs, the monistic mind-body of the material-semiotic figure reacts to and disrupts processes of ontology, transforming women into "wild" and "monstrous" (re)presentations.

Free Download Emily Horton, "21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1350286567 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 624 KB + 7 MB
In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change.