Guido Ferraro, Isabella Brugo
Human, however

How are represented the “evil” and the “monstrous” in our imaginary? Drawing from folklore, literature an cinema, the authors show that our culture shaped those categories in the form of ‘extreme’ characters: vampires, ogres, aliens and dead men trespassing the limits between life and death. These creatures are still present in our fantastic universe through new and unexpected transfiguration – a new contemporary folklore. But are those creatures radically non-human? Or they could be better understood as “tools” to define what we really are, and how our systems of representation work? This is the issue raised by this book, which explores instances of our “negative” imaginary from classical tales to recent cinema and fiction.