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Book SynopsisHorror often gets a bad rap, written off as fodder and sensational trash. This text argues that works of the grotesque, most particularly those that fit into the horror genre (including film, written works, radio plays, music, and more), are rich with content that has been largely ignored by curriculum theorists, and that this marginalization makes the genre rife for exploring the anxieties that drive people to invent these tales, leaving them fertile ground for curriculum exploration. Author James V. Grant takes a bricolage approach to understanding constructed monstrosity within cultural phenomena, using it as groundwork for autobiographical and cultural research. Through this bricolageparticularly as a means for exploring the third spaces that the monstrous inhabit and what this habitation revealsthe author problematizes not only a range of identity politics, but also the primacy of human access in educational thought, questioning the efficacy of viewing students, teachers, and s
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“In this book on horror, James Grant sheds light on a dark subject with skill and subtlety. His work offers striking implications for the chaos of the current condition. Covering film, literature, and curriculum studies, Grant’s work should be read, discussed, and shared widely for its insights into the deeper self.” —Mary A. Doll, Professor of Education, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Author of The More of Myth: A Pedagogy of Diversion
