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1	Monstret och människan : En studie om betydelsen av visuell mänsklighet och nivå av monstrositet i monsterdesign inom skräckgenren / The monster and the human : A study of the significance of visual humanness and level of monstrosity in horror monster design Segerdahl, Jakob January 2022 (has links) Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka betydelsen av visuell mänsklighet och nivå av monstrositet i monsterdesign inom skräckgenren. Detta gjordes genom att utforska skräckgenrens kriterier och de känslor som upplevs i den. Noël Carrols (1987) definition av art-horror användes som grund för arbetet, som beskriver upplevelsen av skräckmonster genom två känslor; hot och avsmak. En kvantitativ studie genomfördes för att undersöka hur upplevt hot och avsmak påverkades av olika nivåer av visuell mänsklighet och monstrositet i monsterdesign. Detta gjordes genom tre bildserier av illustrationer föreställande människor som blev gradvis mer och och mer monstruösa, presenterade i en enkät. Det upptäcktes att det som var mest monstruöst men fortfarande knutet till någonting relaterbart gav starkast reaktioner. Visuell mänsklighet var främst kopplat till avsmak men kunde även stärka känslan av hot och det var generellt svårt att särskilja de två känslorna. Det uppdagades att det inte går att särskilja skräckmonster från subjektivitet och kontext, och därför är det något som bör främjas snarare än undvikas i undersökningar angående skräckgenren. Skräck art-horror monsterdesign mänsklighet monstrositet Information Systems
2	Monsterkroppar : Transformation, transmedialitet och makeoverkultur / Monster bodies : Transformation, transmediality and makeover culture Stenström, Kristina January 2015 (has links) This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. On one hand, discourses of self-improvement in late modernity (Giddens 1991/2008) and ‘makeover culture’ (Johansson, 2006; 2012; Miller, 2008; Weber, 2009) demand a ‘creation of self’ through change and development, often in relation to physical appearance and bodily traits. On the other hand, numerous narratives of monstrosity and bodily change through destruction are also evident. This study takes on this double focus on corporality, against the backdrop of a late modern mediascape that has enabled people to imagine lives and possibilities different from their own through electronic mediation (Appadurai, 1996). As narratives now move between media platforms, new dimensions are brought to the imaginary, as different platforms interact differently with audiences. The aim of the study is to examine monstrous corporality in popular culture both in relation to media texts and audience practices through analyzes of representation, consumption and performance. The study examines medial and corporeal transformation through: concrete bodily change (the monstrous body), shifts between media platforms (transmedia) as well as the transmission of affect between media material and viewer (embodied spectatorship). These dimensions are explored in four empirical chapters, which examine two television series (True Blood and The Walking Dead) through textual analyses, the promotion of these series, audience participation (in online fora) and also participatory practices (Live action role play and zombie walks) through focus group interviews. The results indicate that the theme of monstrous corporeal change in TB and TWD reflects corporeal change in late modernity in several ways. Both transformations are focused on ‘before’ and ‘after’ and change of the monstrous body is connected to particular traits or parts of the body, which are also prominent in makeover culture narratives, such as skin, teeth and weight (appetite). The televisual narrative offers representations of bodily interiors and bodily harm that affect the viewers in a physical way, through an embodied spectatorship. The analyses of transmedia environments connected to the series indicate that the promotion of the programs use dimensions that emphasize the corporeal address, by bridging the gap between diegetic and actual reality. This is done through media environments (posters, websites and the like), and by introducing diegetic elements as actual, tangible objects in the actual reality of potential viewers. The analyses of posts on televisionwithoutpity.com show that participants use forum discussions as strategies to prolong and widen the media experience, and share it with others. Interviews with larpers and participants in zombie walks indicate that practices that stage the monstrous, also function as deepened embodied narrative experiences. Performances such as larps and zombie walks are interpreted as both conscious acts, and as strategies to handle unconscious performative (Butler, 1991/2006) dimensions of late modernity. Taken together, the zombie and vampire embody the pressures, risks and paradoxes connected to late modern makeover culture, and the mediated form they are presented through, tie them closer to those who engage in narratives about them. transmedia audience television embodied spectatorship makeover culture late modernity monstrosity monster vampire zombie transmedia publik television förkroppsligat åskådarskap makeoverkultur senmodernitet monstrositet monster vampyr zombie
3	Lovecrafts kvinnor : En undersökning av kvinnlig monstrositet i Howard Phillips Lovecrafts litteratur / Lovecraft’s women : A study of female monstrosity in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s literature Oskarson Kindstrand, Gro January 2014 (has links) While the strategy of lending a voice to the monstrous is a well known aspect of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's works, the female monster is a notable exception to this case. In this thesis, I excavate a theory of female monstrosity through a reading of some of Lovecraft's most read stories and the agency of female characters that appears within. Comparing these female registers of monstrosity to their masculine counterpart, I develop a concept of female monstrosity manifested through categories of class, race and gender with the help of Judith Halberstams theories of monstrosity. Rather than treating these women as active characters, I argue that Lovecraft's inability to handle these monsters forces him to literally put them away – in attics, cellars, or boxes. These are the marginalized positions from which these women elaborate a monstrous form that transcends the boundaries of sex, gender, class and race. Here lurks a female monster, powerful, independent and evil, Lovecraft's treatment of which reveals his fear of its unfettered emergence. Thus Lovecraft’s narrative technique is broken by his own creation. Indeed, these women, in their reproductive capabilities and the monstrous motherhood they represent, are the true monsters of the Lovecraftian universe. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft The Thing on the Doorstep The Dunwich Horror The Dreams in the Witch-House The Colour Out of Space Halberstam monster monstrosity female monsters monstrous motherhood Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft The Thing on the Doorstep The Dunwich Horror The Dreams in the Witch-House The Colour Out of Space Halberstam monster monstrositet kvinnliga monster monstruöst moderskap
4	Att göra kaos i ett cisnormativt kosmos : en laborerande studie av den transteoretiska och-aktivistiska samvaron med Satan Jangmyr, Michelle January 2015 (has links) The purpose of this paper is to present an opening to argue for a transtheoretical and - activist fellowship with Satan and the values connected to hir. A transactivist fellows-hip with Satan builds on two primary points of contact. It is on one hand the opportu-nity to take advantage of the non-conformist, non-normative and polemical signifi-cance Satan has been attributed, especially in the history of literature, but also in the history of religion. And on the other hand this study also dwells upon how Satan as a figure has served as an expression of evilness, hatred, darkness and suffering amongst people. The questions i ask, is if there is a course that allows me to theorize for a stra-tegic collaboration between the transactivist struggle and the ideas that is connected to the satanfigure in John Miltons Paradise Lost. I also ask if there is a transtheoretical-and activist approach where Satan can function as an ally within the transactivist re-sistance. The purpose of this paper also carries on a confrontation with the notion of ”tone-policing", and love and tenderness as the only sanctioned (and praised) incenti-ves for political struggle. In this thesis I make a link between the logic that connects to Satan as an ideological basis and a non-conformist (militant), seperatist, anti-capi-talist and queer attitude in transactivist struggle. With the help of Susan Stryker's the-ory of the monsteridentity I will experiment with extracts from John Milton's Paradise Lost, where the Satan figure and the transactivist position builds on a fellowship as my analysis proceeds. To do this i use a queer-deleuzian tool as a method that focuses on textual framings within the idea of spatial relations, meaning how the actual text can and should correspond with discourses outside its territorial space. This allow me to di-sengage Satan from its original amplitude, and instead of interpreting how Satan handles hirself in Paradise Lost, i will liberate Satan from this narrative and create a relation between hir and my thesis. In this way I create an occasion, through a theore-tical approach to trans-subjectivity as comparable to the perception of the monster as a non-normative figure, to bring the transgendered monster together with the satanic monster. The ”what” that will subsequently crystallize during the analysis have the intention to tell the story about the ways in which the non-confirmative transactivist have in common with Satan. After doing this i will conclude my thesis with a discus-sion that reflects on how this fellowship has evolved in relation to the proposed politi-cal and emotional connections between the non-confomative transactivist and Satan. transactivism transtheory cisnormativity Satan transgender rage tone- policing Paradise Lost satanic transactivism satanic transtheory non-conformity satanism John Milton Susan Stryker satanic feminism Per Faxneld monstruoisty chaos hate hell darkness queer-deluzian transgender monster monster identity transaktivism transteori cisnormativitet Satan transaktivisk vrede god ton Paradise Lost satanistisk transaktivism satanistisk transteori icke-konformism satanism John Milton Susan Stryker satanic feminism satanistisk feminism Per Faxneld monstrositet kaos hat helvetet queerdeluziansk trans monster monstruös identitet

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