"What a perfect monster!" : Gone Girl's destabilization of feminine archetypes in popular media / by Stephanie Orman.
Critical theorist Jack Halberstam and cultural historian Scott Poole have both defined the monster as a meaning machinean embodiment, not of a natural or innate psychological terror, but something mutable and ever changing. The forms the monster has taken over the ages and throughout literature are...
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| 520 | 3 | |a Critical theorist Jack Halberstam and cultural historian Scott Poole have both defined the monster as a meaning machinean embodiment, not of a natural or innate psychological terror, but something mutable and ever changing. The forms the monster has taken over the ages and throughout literature are innumerable. A monster in any formmay be a bundle of contradictions, simultaneously a threat to an ordered society and the standard that society is maintained against. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Across mediums, genres and texts, and over the course of centuries, the monster has been a symbol of deviance, an object of sympathy, and an image of erotic desire. In spite of its many incarnations, the monster always represents the disruption of categories, the disruption of boundaries, and the presence of Otherness. Through the figure of the monster, readers and critics alike may uncover social values and societal critiques, as well as the potential of genres of literature, from fairy tales to gothic stories, noir mysteries to contemporary fiction, to both portray and interrogate those values. As such, the monster often becomes the primary locus of interpretation in its narratives, for critics as well as audiences and readers. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a This paper will use Gillian Flynns Gone Girl (2012), and David Finchers 2014 cinematic adaptation, as mediums through which to examine the archetype of the monstrous woman in contemporary American popular culture. | |
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