The Curse of the Werewolf

Informationen zum Autor Chantal Bourgault du Coudray is Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is also! in partnership with writer/director Christopher Kenworthy! an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter. Klappentext Looking at the how the werewolf has been interpreted by anthropologists! psychologists and criminologists! the author explores the werewolf's appearance across a number of popular forms! from film to graphic novels. The author looks at the roots of the myth and at its appearance in Gothic horror! at ideas of "the beast within" and Freud's "wolf-man" to representations of criminality! wolf imagery in Nazism! the "body horror" films of the 1980s and finally! to the werewolf's revival in contemporary fantasy. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - this work shows the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism. Zusammenfassung Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - this work shows the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism.

Vorwort
Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - this work shows the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism.

Autorentext
Chantal Bourgault du Coudray is Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is also, in partnership with writer/director Christopher Kenworthy, an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter.

Klappentext
<div><div>Looking at the how the werewolf has been interpreted by anthropologists, psychologists and criminologists, the author explores the werewolf's appearance across a number of popular forms, from film to graphic novels. The author looks at the roots of the myth and at its appearance in Gothic horror, at ideas of "the beast within" and Freud's "wolf-man" to representations of criminality, wolf imagery in Nazism, the "body horror" films of the 1980s and finally, to the werewolf's revival in contemporary fantasy.<br></div></div>

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