The monster theory reader

Keeping pace with Western culture's fascination with monsters, monster theory has attempted to explore the significance of monsters in different genre, media, and cultural contexts; complicating this project however has been the absence of a single volume collecting in one place central approaches and significant works. This book brings together some of the scattered articles, essays, and book chapters theorizing monsters and monstrosity, thereby making the volume useful for researchers and ideal for course adoption for classes involving a focus on monsters."

Introduction : a genealogy of monster theory / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Monster culture (seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- The uncanny / Sigmund Freud -- The uncanny valley / Masahiro Mori -- Approaching abjection / Julia Kristeva -- An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood -- Fantastic biologies and the structures of horrific imagery / Noel Carroll -- Parasites and perverts : an introduction to gothic monstrosity / Jack Halberstam -- Monstrous strangers at the edge of the world : the monstrous races / Alexa Wright -- Blood, Jews, and monsters in medieval culture / Bettina Bildhauer -- Horror and the monstrous-feminine : an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed -- The monster and the homosexual / Harry Benshoff -- The undead : a haunted whiteness / Annalee Newitz -- Intolerable ambiguity : freak as/at the limit / Elizabeth Grosz -- Monsters and the moral imagination / Stephen T. Asma -- Introduction to religion and its monsters / Timothy K. Beal -- The self's clean and proper body / Margrit Shildrick -- Haunting modernity : Tanuki, trains, and transformation in Japan / Michael Dylan Foster -- Invisible monsters : vision, horror, and contemporary culture / Je…