Monsters In America by W. Scott Poole
Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
A cultural history that traces how Americans have created, consumed, and commodified monsters from the nineteenth century to the modern era, arguing that tales of the hideous and the uncanny reveal shifting national anxieties about race, gender, urbanization, science, and capitalism; it examines newspapers, dime novels, freak shows, spiritualism, film, and cryptozoology to show how monstrous figures are manufactured, marketed, and used to negotiate social change, moral panics, and identity, ultimately suggesting that monsters tell us as much about American fears and fantasies as they do about the creatures themselves.
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