Memes, monsters and the digital grotesque
Investigating the grotesque aesthetics of a postdigital era, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque offers a fresh and innovative approach to examining informal politics, monstrous aesthetics, and digital media.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
British Academy
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | British Academy Monographs
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| Summary: | Investigating the grotesque aesthetics of a postdigital era, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque offers a fresh and innovative approach to examining informal politics, monstrous aesthetics, and digital media. Cover -- Half-title -- Monograph -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Transliterations -- Transliteration of Arabic Letters -- 1 Introduction: Uprisings, Memes, and HorrorIn -- Zombie Labels -- The Power of Memes -- So, Why Horror? -- A Note on the Structure -- Part I The Poetics of Digital Horror -- 2 The Digital Grotesque -- Digital Cultural Studies -- The Postdigital -- Aesthetic Disruptions -- Digital Grotesque as Disobedience -- Memes as Digital Monsters -- Thesis VIII: Alienation Anxieties -- Embracing the World of Monsters -- 3 The Case for (Decolonial) Horror -- From Noir to Horror -- The Presence of Jinns -- Possessing the Digital -- Gothifying the Digital -- Towards a Decolonial Gothic -- Part II Stories of the Undead -- 4 Animating the Living Dead -- Depicting Waste -- Unproper Young Men -- Embracing the Zombie -- A Grotesque Visibility -- 5 Policing the Borders of Abnormality -- Online Surveillance and Persecution -- Long Live the People -- The Bottle Meme -- The Boycott and the People -- Digital Jinns -- Part III Home Wreckers -- 6 Diaries of a Monstrous Woman -- Misogyny in Digital Cultures -- 'Good' Women, 'Ugly' Feminists -- The Effects of Digital Manspreading -- Exposing the Everyday Unheimlich -- The Return of Aicha Qandisha -- 7 Dis-meme-bering the Nation -- Horror and Humour in the Memesphere -- Trolling the Master -- Memories of Al-Andalus -- The 'Chams' Meme -- Gothic Memes -- Memes and the Nation -- Part IV Desiring the Grotesque -- 8 Monstrous Speech -- Language in the Post-Postcolony -- Politics and Dirty Words -- Memetic Leadership -- Meme and Myth -- Postscript -- 9 Ghosts of a 'Cool' Past -- Glamming Up the Local Grotesque -- Haunting Music -- Back to the Future -- Monsters of Nostalgia. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-893089-1 |
