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Monsters on MTV: Adaptation and the Gothic Music Video

Humanities, 2023
Music videos of the MTV era often use gothic visual signifiers as decorative elements or creative expressions of the musician’s star persona or latest record.
Drago Momcilovic
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Gender monstrosity [PDF]

, 2012
Deadgirl (2008) is based around a group of male teens discovering and claiming ownership of a bound female zombie, using her as a sex slave. This narrative premise raises numerous tensions that are particularly amplified by using a zombie as the film’s ...
Jones, Steve
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Monstrosity and War Memories in Latin American Post-conflict Cinema

CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2016
This article explores the relationship between inhumanity, monstrosity, war and memory in two Latin American films: Días de Santiago (Peru, 2004) and La sombra del caminante (Colombia, 2004). These aesthetically innovative films tackle the internal armed
Maria Chiara D'Argenio
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A modest plea for a Chestertonian reading of The Monstrosity of Christ [PDF]

, 2017
Review of John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (Cambridge: MIT Press ...
Marika Rose
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‘I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference

Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This article presents findings from a UK‐based qualitative study that explored parents/carers experiences of child to parent violence (CPV) from their child who has a neurodevelopmental difference. The study used semi‐structured interviews with 15 mothers who were experiencing physical and psychological violence from their child, often on a ...
Amanda Holt
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Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011
For Descartes, nature must be interpreted through a limited number of simple laws used to describe the multiplicity of the real, focusing on the rule and normality rather than on the exception and monstrosity.
Filippo Del Luchesse
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At the Edge of the World. Geographical Location, Englishness and Monstrosity

Lea, 2023
Monstrosity is a constant presence in Old English literature. In particular, Wonders of the East depicts everything that was perceived as strange, significantly located in the East, displaying a Mediterranean-centric perspective where Europe works as the
Jasmine Bria
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Early 21st-century Serbian exploitation cinema

Images, 2018
Exploitation films are one of the main trends of the Serbian cinema of the beginning of the 21st century, when Serbia enters the second phase of systemic transformation, striving to neutralize the effects of the crisis in the first phase of ...
Patrycjusz Pająk
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'Weighty Celebrity': Corpulency, Monstrosity, and Freakery in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019
Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar.
Whitney Dirks
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The threshold of the monstrous, between dehumanization and necro-capitalism

Itinera, 2023
The subject of the following contribution is a discussion of the theses in R.L.Smith's volume 'Making Monster,' on the relationship between processes of dehumanization and the production of monstrosity.
Vincenzo Di Mino
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