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Monsters that scare us -- vampires, zombies, witches -- help us cope with what we dread most in life. Fear of the monstrous has brought communities and cultures together over the centuries and serves them as well today as in the Dark Ages.
- A Lust For Fame, Wealth and Blood
- The Birth of The Walking Dead
- How Do Werewolves Fit in with All this?
- The New Future of Monsters?
In the early millennium, the rise of vampire mythology (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Twilight,” “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries”) and its related themes of fame and immortality, age-defying beauty and generational wealth coincided with the anxieties of entering into a new era and the rapidly burgeoning technological economies throughout the worl...
The 2008-2008 global financial crisis promptly shot down our fascination with wealth and power. We no longer cared about notions of fame and fortune. The chaos of the economy, the loss of direction and whole livelihoods meant that we wanted to resonate with turmoil and establish a new world order, where capitalism is dead and communism reigns. We d...
There hasn’t been so much of a rise or fall in werewolves, in terms of media. They’ve always been there, and that might be because werewolves represent not a certain class of people, but rather represent a transition to manhood and masculinity. Remember Jacob Black (“Twilight”) and Scott McCall (“Teen Wolf”)? It’s all tanned skin, rippling muscles ...
“Like a letter on the page, the monster signifies something other than itself: it is always a displacement, always inhabits the gap between the time of upheaval that created it and the moment into which it is received, to be born again”(Cohen, Monster Theory Thesis 1: Monstrous Body is a Cultural Body). It’s a telling quote, timeless in its applica...
Mar 15, 2023 · Monsters reveal what a culture thinks of itself and of others; they define the human as much as they define the inhuman. In exploring what monsters are and where they come from, monster theory aims to understand what monsters mean and what cultural work they do.
Summary. WHAT I WILL propose here by way of a first foray, as entrance into this book of monstrous content, is a sketch of a new modus legendi: a method of reading cultures from the monsters they engender.
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- 2018
Apr 12, 2021 · A Teen’s Short Guide to Monster Theory. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, an academic of medieval studies, lays out seven theses in Monster Culture. He guides scholars on how to read monsters and the cultures they both shape and are shaped by. Monsters are pure culture and exist “only to be read” (Cohen 4).
Mar 25, 2020 · Monsters are strong, resilient, creative and sly creatures. Through their playful and invigorating energy they can be seen to disrupt and unsettle. They still cater to the appetite...
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May 25, 2021 · The label of monster is often used as a form of control and oppression. By giving voice to the monster, we welcome critique on society and a reflection on values, anxieties and cultural...
