Monsterization vs Monsterise - What's the difference?
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the transformation of something or someone into a monster either literally or figatuvely
* 1999 , Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages , page 132
* 2003 , Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity , page 25
* 2006 , Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
* 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
* 1997 , Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film , page 330
* 2005 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
Monsterization is a related term of monsterise.
As a noun monsterization
is the transformation of something or someone into a monster either literally or figatuvely.As a verb monsterise is
to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.monsterization
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Noun
(en-noun)- A similar but less spectacular technology of monsterization propels the representation of Islam in England, where the "Saracen threat" never encroached and therefore was always in danger of seeming fantastic and remote.
- Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose
- “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization .
- Cultural anthropologists undoubtedly relish in the study of the monsterization of Michael Jackson.
Synonyms
*demonization *vilificationmonsterise
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Alternative forms
* monsterizeVerb
(monsteris)- and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of " a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
- (quite literally monsterise ) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
- A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.