Craven, Allison, and Balanzategui, Jessica (2023) Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialities, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous. In: Balanzategui, Jessica, and Craven, Allison, (eds.) Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 11-32.

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Abstract

The introduction outlines this collection's focus on the affordances of the media environments in which monsters are made and how they are generated by media-specific creative practices as much as the epistemologies or cultures in which they originate. In examining monstrous beings across a diverse range of contexts, this collection illustrates how monsters travel and lurk between vernacular – or what we polemically term "folk" – and formal media cultures. As this chapter and the collection as a whole elucidate, monsters travel through time as well as space, yet their composition and the anxieties that they project are materially inflected by specific cultural, historical, regional, and geographic conditions.

Item ID:	81114
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9789463726344
Keywords:	monstrosity, materiality, regionality, media cultures, horror
Copyright Information:	© Amsterdam University Press 2023.
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2023 01:59
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