| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
250 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Fountainhead Press V Series
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Fountainhead Press V Series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250). |
| Note |
Filmography (p. 245-246). |
| Contents |
Introduction: Haunting boundaries / Brandy Ball Blake and L. Andrew Cooper -- Monster culture (seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Excerpts from Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein: a femisnist critique of science / Anne K. Mellor -- George Romero's Zombie films: a plague of meaning / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Excerpts from World War Z / Max Brooks -- Excerpts form The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Strange transformations: John Landis's An American werewolf in London / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Company of wolves / Angela Carter -- Excerpts from Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity / Judith Halberstam -- Excerpt from Gothic realities: the impact of horror fiction on modern culture / L. Andrew Cooper -- Civilized vampires versus savage werewolves: race and ethnicity in the Twilight series / Natalie Wilson -- Horrors of race and American history: Candyman / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Excerpts from The uncanny (1919) / Sigmund Freud -- Evil dolls: the child's play and puppet master series / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Serial killers: from Jack the Ripper to Aileen Wuornos / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Movie psychos and slashers: from Norman Bates to Freddy Krueger / L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake -- Excerpts from Killing monsters / Gerard Jones. |
| Subject |
College readers.
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College readers. |
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Academic writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Academic writing. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Added Author |
Blake, Brandy Ball.
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Cooper, L. Andrew, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9781598714838 |
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159871483X |
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