monsterization

plural monsterizations

1. The transformation of something or someone into a monster, either literally or figuratively.

   2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa “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.

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   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.

   1999, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages, page 132

   Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose

   2003, Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity, page 25

   Synonyms: demonization, vilification