Author : Mari Bolte
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515769356
Fierce monsters go head-to-head as mash-ups in this drawing book that defys imagination. Aliens or sea monsters? Why choose just one? Drawing has never been this much fun.
Author : Mari Bolte
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515769399
Fierce monsters go head-to-head as mash-ups in this drawing book that defys imagination. Aliens or sea monsters? Why choose just one? Drawing has never been this much fun.
Author : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135023446X
The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.
Author : Natalie Neill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793636583
Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.
Author : Yasmine Musharbash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000185532
Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Writing in a time of violent upheaval, when technological innovation brings forth new monsters while others perish as part of the widespread extinctions that signify the Anthropocene, contributors argue that putting monsters at the center of social analysis opens up new perspectives on change and social transformation. Through a series of ethnographically grounded analyses they capture monsters that herald, drive, experience, enjoy, and suffer the transformations of the worlds they beleaguer. Topics examined include the evil skulking new roads in Ancient Greece, terror in post-socialist Laos’s territorial cults, a horrific flying head that augurs catastrophe in the rain forest of Borneo, benign spirits that accompany people through the mist in Iceland, flesh-eating giants marching through neo-colonial central Australia, and ghosts lingering in Pacific villages in the aftermath of environmental disasters. By taking the proposition that monsters and the humans they haunt are intricately and intimately entangled seriously, this book offers unique, cross-cultural perspectives on how people perceive the world and their place within it. It also shows how these experiences of belonging are mediated by our relationships with the other-than-human.
Author : Ralph Masiello
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607344580
Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing Halloween motifs including pumpkins, ghosts, a black cat, gravestones, a witch, a skeleton, and a haunted mansion.
Author : John Landis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0756688469
From cinema's earliest days, being scared out of your wits has always been one of the best reasons for going to the movies. From B-movie bogeymen and outer space oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Landis also surveys the historical origins of archetypal monsters, such as vampires, zombies and werewolves, and takes you behind the scenes to discover the secrets of the special-effects wizards who created such legendary frighteners as King Kong, Dracula, the Alien, and Freddy Krueger. Monsters in the Movies by John Landis is filled with the author's own fascinating and entertaining insights into the world of movie-making, and includes memorable contributions from leading directors, actors and monster-makers. The book is also stunningly illustrated with 1000 movie stills and posters drawn from the unrivaled archives of the Kobal Collection. Contents Introduction by John Landis... Explore a timeless world of fears and nightmares as John Landis investigates what makes a legendary movie monster • Monsters, chapter by chapter... Feast your eyes upon a petrifying parade of voracious Vampires, flesh-eating Zombies, slavering Werewolves, gigantic Apes and Supernatural Terrors • Spectacular double-page features... Thrill to the strangest, scariest, weirdest, and craziest movie monsters ever seen • The ingenious tricks of movie-making... Marvel as the special-effects wizards reveal how they create movie magic • A monster-movie timeline... Discover John Landis's personal selection of landmark horror films
Author : Peter McCarty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 142991730X
Alone in his room, Jeremy draws a monster. But then the monster wants lunch! As his creation takes over, Jeremy begins to wonder how he will ever get rid of the monstrous nuisance. He entertains his unwanted guest all day, but enough is enough. Jeremy finally draws him a bus ticket out of town! With a sure artistic touch and more than a dose of humor, Peter McCarty cleverly blurs the line between his own drawings and Jeremy's, and in doing so subtly questions the line between reality and imagination.
Author : Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476636486
A pioneering "horror-punk" band, the Misfits are legends in their own time. This discography tells the story of the band in all of its incarnations through all of their recorded output--both official and unauthorized releases. Discographies are provided for both present and former members' solo projects and bands, along with a wealth of rare record sleeves, photos and vintage posters documenting the evolution of the band and the brand.
Author : Dark Horse Comics
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1616558288
When Dark Horse began their massive reprint programme for hallowed magazines Creepy and Eerie they also obtained the rights to create new stories in the same vein. This is the fourth collection of all-new Creepy material. Creepy Comics enters its second half-century of horrifying readers! Don't miss malicious missives from Fred Van Lente, Ray Fawkes, Alex de Campi, Richard P. Clark, Matthew Southworth, Tom Coker, Ted Naifeh and many more - it's a heap of creep!
