Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A ReaderMarina Levina, Diem-My T. Bui Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 23.05.2013 - 344 Seiten In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great social, political, and economical uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight, Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar, it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century. The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity in culture. |
Inhalt
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PART ONE Monstrous identities | 33 |
The Twilight vampire figure assurveillance metaphor
Florian Grandena | 35 |
3 Playing alien in postracial times
Susana Loza | 53 |
Human devolutionin The Walking Dead
Kyle W Bishop | 73 |
Reflecting and deflecting themobility of gendered violence onscreen
Megan Foley | 87 |
Metaphors of race and sexuality inHBOs True Blood
Peter Odell Campbell | 99 |
Digitaltechnology the trade in conflict minerals and zombification
Jeffrey W Mantz | 177 |
Controlling monstrosity in video
games
Jaroslav Švelch | 193 |
The critical positioning of zombie walk bridesin internet settings
Michele White | 209 |
PART THREE Monstrous territories
| 227 |
Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the
national imaginary
Michael S Drake | 229 |
Post911 narratives of threat and the USshifting terrain of terror
Mary K BloodsworthLugo and Carmen R LugoLugo | 243 |
Undead in the West
Cynthia J Miller and A Bowdoin Van Riper | 257 |
The incorporeal
monstrosity of threat in Lost
Enrica Picarelli | 273 |
Biological essentialism sexual
difference and changing symbolic functions of the monster in
popular werewolf texts
Rosalind Sibielski | 115 |
PART TWO Monstrous technologies | 131 |
Neoliberalism biopolitics and zombies
Sherryl Vint | 133 |
9 Monstrous technologies and the telepathology of everydaylife
Jeremy Biles | 147 |
Coercion submission and thepossibilities of resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas
Roy Osamu Kamada | 163 |
Frankenstein derivatives financial wizardsand the spectral economy
Ryan Gillespie | 287 |
19 Domesticating the monstrous in a globalizing world
Carolyn Harford | 303 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abject Aileen Wuornos alien American anxieties argues Avatar Battlestar Galactica become Bella biological biopolitics body capitalism characters Charlize Theron cinematic clones Coltan Congo Congolese contemporary critical Cullens cyborgs Cylons death Deleuze discourse District 9 economic Edward embodiment essay fantasy fear female fiction figure film Flickr Flightplan gender genre Gilles Deleuze global heterosexual horror human Ibid identity Image Comics Internet killing Kirkman Lindqvist’s Living Dead Lost’s lycanthropy male metaphor mirror monster monstrosity moral neoliberal norms novel one’s ontology politics popular culture post-racial posthuman protagonists queer race racial representations Rick Robert Kirkman role Romero’s Routledge serial killer sexual difference social society space surveillance telepathology television texts threat traditional transformation tropes True Blood twenty-first century uncanny undead University Press vampires video games viewers violence Walking Dead werewolf werewolf narratives Western Wikus Wuornos’s York zombie brides Zombie walk