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Monsters and the Monstrous Editor Cristina Santos Brock University, Canada Reviews Editor Cristina Santos Brock University Canada Foreign Language Reviews Editor Cristina Santos Brock University, Canada Editorial Board Deborah Christie Ken Monteith EPCI University, Independent Scholar, USA USA Sarah Lauro Cristina Santos Visiting Asst. Professor, Brock University, Clemson University, USA Canada Peter Mario Kreuter Leah Richards Südost-Institut, Regensburg, LaGuardia Comm. College Germany Long Island City, NY Global Interdisciplinary Research Studies Advisory Board Series Editors Rob Fisher Lisa Howard Series Editor Director of Publications Network Founder & Farmington, USA Network Director Inter-Disciplinary.Net Ken Monteith Oxford, United Kingdom Publications Project Manager USA Advisory Board Simon Bacon Karl Spracklen Independent Scholar, Leeds MetropolitanUniversity, Poznan, Poland United Kingdom Katarzyna Bronk Ana Borlescu Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Bucharest Poznan, Poland Romania Ann-Marie Cook Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Monsters and the Monstrous Copyright Monsters and the Monstrous Inter- Disciplinary Press Subscriptions 2014

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Monsters and the Monstrous

Editor

Cristina Santos Brock University, Canada

Reviews Editor

Cristina SantosBrock University Canada

Foreign Language Reviews Editor

Cristina Santos Brock University, Canada

Editorial Board Deborah Christie Ken Monteith EPCI University, Independent Scholar, USA USA

Sarah Lauro Cristina SantosVisiting Asst. Professor, Brock University, Clemson University, USA Canada

Peter Mario Kreuter Leah Richards Südost-Institut, Regensburg, LaGuardia Comm. College Germany Long Island City, NY

Global Interdisciplinary Research Studies Advisory Board

Series Editors

Rob Fisher Lisa Howard Series Editor Director of Publications Network Founder & Farmington, USANetwork Director

Inter-Disciplinary.Net Ken MonteithOxford, United Kingdom Publications Project Manager

USA

Advisory Board

Simon Bacon Karl SpracklenIndependent Scholar, Leeds MetropolitanUniversity, Poznan, Poland United Kingdom

Katarzyna Bronk Ana BorlescuAdam Mickiewicz University, University of Bucharest Poznan, Poland Romania

Ann-Marie Cook Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Monsters and the Monstrous

Copyright Monsters and the Monstrous Inter-Disciplinary Press

Subscriptions

2014

Monsters and the MonstrousVolume 4 Number 2 Winter 2014

‘In the Blood’

Contents

Introduction Cristina Santos, Chief Editor .............................................................................. iii

‘To free men from the tyranny of vampires’: Abraham Lincoln’sBloodiest Work David Hoogland Noon ...........................................................................................1

Smell of Roses and Blood: The Vampire Empire of the Hunger Games TrilogyIldikó Limpár ...................................................................................................... 15

Flesh and Blood: Reading Monstrosity and Desire in the TwilightSaga and The Vampire DiariesMaría Mariño Faza ............................................................................................ 25

Thicker Than Water Spade ……………………..................................................................................... 35

‘I Want Blood!’ Vampirism in 20th-Century Russian Urban Childlore Yelena Novitskaya ...............................................................................................37

Monstrous Blood Relations: The Seriousness of Slapstick’s TwinsAbeer Fahim .......................................................................................................51

Stone LoveSpade ……………………..................................................................................... 63

Visualising the Menstrous: Infectious Blood in Contemporary ArtRuth Green-Cole................................................................................................. 65

Short Stories and Poetry:

Saturn Devouring His SonA. Marie Carter ................................................................................................. 79

Bad BloodTess Williams .................................................................................................... 81

NightmaresEilleen M. James ...............................................................................................90

Below a Bridge the River WatchesMario Tofano .....................................................................................................91

Bloodlines Peter Arnds ........................................................................................................95

Book Reviews:

Empire VZhanna Vavilova ...............................................................................................99

Flame-Touched InheritanceFanni Sütő .......................................................................................................101

Film Reviews:

The Babadook Erin Harrington ..............................................................................................103

The StrainBenjamin Franz ..............................................................................................106

Visualising the Menstrous: Infectious Blood in Contemporary Art

Ruth Green-Cole

Abstract

othered

menstrous

menstrous

Key Words l’informe,

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1. Introduction

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The Third of May 1808

The Third of May 1808

The Third of May 1808

Orgies, Mysteries, Theatre

Blood on the Floor Blood on the Pavement

Painting Figure with Meat

aktions Three Studies for a Crucifixion

aktion

Orgies, Mysteries, Theatre

2. Menstrous Monsters in Film and Photography l’informe

l’informe

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Fetishism

differencemenstrous

menstrous

Carrie

CarriePsycho,

Carrie

Carrie

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Red Is The Colour

menstrous

Red is the Colour

3. Infectious Blood and Performance

Four Scenes from a Harsh LifeMartyrs and Saints

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Four Scenes in a Harsh Life

Trans-fixed

4. Conclusion

Notes

History of Sexuality 1: The Will to Knowledge

Francis BaconMeat

JoyBody Art and Performance: The Body as Language

The Theatre and its Double

Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

The Order of Things

France Culture. Of Other Spaces

Other Spaces! The Affair of the Heterotopia: Die Affäre Der

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Heterotopie

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity

This Sex Which is Not One ,Monstrous-Feminine,

The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

Film QuarterlyMonstrous-Feminine

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Monstrous-Feminine

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Monstrous-Feminine

The Female EunuchBlood, Bread, and Roses! How Menstruation Created the World

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Women’s Studies

Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis

The University of Hawaii

The New York Times

The New York Times

Male TroubleBrunel University

Male Trouble

Bibliography

The New York Times

The Theatre and Its Double .

The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity

Red Is the Colour Women’s Studies

Formless! A User’s Guide.

Film Quarterly

Gender Trouble! Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation.

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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

The Vulva: Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology

The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

History of Sexuality 1: The Will to Knowledge

Other Spaces! The Affair of the Heterotopia: Die Affäre Der Heterotopie

Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis

Francis Bacon.

WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Blood, Bread, and Roses! How Menstruation Created the World

Essays on the Horror Film

The Female Eunuch.

The New York Times

This Sex Which is Not One. ,

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Menstruation and Psychoanalysis.

The Journal of Generative Anthropology

Brunel University

The University of Hawaii

Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language

Ruth Green-Cole