Scary Monsters

Mark Duffett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. He is known for the book Understanding Fandom (2013).Jon Hackett is Associate Professor in Film and Communications and Head of Communications, Media and Marketing at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. His research and teaching interests include critical theory, film studies and popular music studies.

• IntroductionJon Hackett1. A Night at the Opera: Updating The PhantomMark Duffett2. ‘His Muscles Still Bulged Like Iron Bands’: King Kong and the Promotion of Lead BellyMark Duffett3. Colonel Parker and the Art of Commercial Exploitation: The Manager as MonsterMark Duffett4. The Platformed Prometheus: Frankenstein and Glam RockJon Hackett5. The Case of Mark Chapman: Extreme Fandom as Monstrosity?Mark Duffett6. Exhuming the Gravediggaz: Gothic Hip Hop and Monster CapitalJon Hackett7. Masculinity on Trial: Noir Désir and Perverse NarcissismJon Hackett8. ‘Jingle Jangle Man’: Jimmy Savile, Paedophilia and the Music IndustryMark DuffettReferencesEndnotesIndex

Mark Duffett and Jon Hackett have compiled a fascinating collection of analyses that provide new perspectives on popular music figures, popular culture, and the societies and cultures of both the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st. Thanks to their innovative utilization of different theories regarding concepts such as masculinity and monstrosity, their collection is of interest to a wide range of scholars ... Through their close readings of popular culture figures, texts, and discourses, they demonstrate an adeptness at incorporating the less commonly applied monstrosity studies with the more prevalent gender studies to provide new insights into music studies.