Estilización de la monstruosidad: nuevas concepciones del ser mitológico y su resignificación como otredad amenazante en series televisivas fantásticas

Abstract

Recognizing the potential of the televisual medium to encourage reflection about socio-historical processes, we wondered about the construction of the mythological being and its reconfiguration as threatening otherness in the fantastic television series Being Human UK (BBC Three: 2009) and Once Upon A Time (ABC: 2011-2013). The stylisation of monstrosity and/or strangeness is considered an original strategy to generate supernatural beings that transgress conventional stereotypes and adopt standards of beauty and normality set out in contemporary society.