Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death

Monstrous Males/Fatal Females

Fuentes, Agustin; Claman, Alexander; Stang, Sarah; Gibson, Rebecca; Hernandez-Santaolalla, Victor; Coward-Gibbs, Matt; Michael-Fox, Bethan; Fenton, F.C.; VanderVeen, James M.; Gibson, Rebecca

Lexington Books

01/2023

236

Mole

Inglês

9781793641373

15 a 20 dias

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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 Hernandez-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 Agustin 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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Frankenstein;horror;pop-culture horror;pop-culture undead;supernatural;supernatural sex;undead;vampire;vampire movies;zombie;zombie movies