Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed. The Monster Theory Reader. U of Minnesota P, 2020. Paperback, 600 pg. $35.00. ISBN 9781517905255.
If you subscribe to the theory that Mary Shelley is a key figure in the genesis of science fiction, then it is only a small step to claim that the figure of the monster is as central to science fiction as it is to horror.
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Julia Gatermann und Lars Schmeink
Tim Burtons Stil ist so ikonisch, dass er zum Inbegriff einer individuellen Ästhetik geworden ist, die es sogar bereits in die popkulturelle Umgangssprache geschafft hat. Der Eintrag zu „Burtonesque“ im Urban Dictionary beschreibt seinen Stil als „imaginative and fantastical“, verankert zwischen Gothic, Horror, Legende und Märchen. Seine Filme seien „surreal, avant-garde and expressionistic, the tone of which is commonly described as ‘dark’ and ‘gothic’“.
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Simon Bacon: The Gothic: A Reader
New York: Peter Lang, 2018, 263 S., ISBN 9781787072688, Euro 35,-
Simon Bacon: Horror: A Companion
New York: Peter Lang, 2019, 277 S., ISBN 9781787079199, Euro 35,-
Simon Bacon: Monsters: A Companion
New York: Peter Lang, 2020, 279 S., ISBN 9781788746649, Euro 35,-
In her discussion of technoscience, Donna Haraway draws upon the vampire to represent the ‘vectors of infection’ that infuse current ‘bioscientific constructions of universal humanity’.[1] The vampire provides the ideal imagery to describe the transgressions, transformations and constant renegotiations of categories that haunt the posthuman existence of the technoscientific age. And indeed, vampires have ‘the power to move between and undo borders otherwise holding identities in place’. As Erik Butler claims: Their ‘affinity for rupture, change, and mutation’[2] makes them posthuman creatures in more than one sense.
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In May 2013 I was approached by an online magazine whose mission is the reporting of anything that defines our urban living experience and challenges our notions of what it means to be a city dweller. My proposal to them was that I would write an article series on the influence of science fiction and real life in the city.
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Weinstock, Jeffrey, Hg. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
“Wir leben in einer Zeit der Monster”, schreibt Jeffrey Cohen bereits 1993 in seinem Sammelband Monster Theory und verweist damit auf eine tief sitzende gesellschaftliche Angst, die unser Leben ständig umgibt und sich kulturell in einer Faszination für gesellschaftliche Grenzgänger äußert (iix). Read More