Vilification vs Monsterization - What's the difference?
vilification | monsterization | Synonyms |
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
Vilification is a synonym of monsterization.
As nouns the difference between vilification and monsterization
is that vilification is slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination while monsterization is the transformation of something or someone into a monster either literally or figatuvely.monsterization
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(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.