Monster culture in the 21st century : a reader
Marina Levina (Editor), Diem-My T. Bui (Editor)
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 Acti
1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages) : illustrations
9781441193261, 9781441185372, 144119326X, 1441185372
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Introduction: Toward a comprehensive monster theory in the 21st century / Marina Levina and Diem My Bui
1. Ontology and monstrosity / Amit S. Rai
Part 1: Monstrous identities
2. Heading towards the past: the Twilight vampire figure as surveillance metaphor / Florian Grandena
3. Playing alien in post-racial times / Susana Loza
4. Battling monsters and becoming monstrous: Human devolution in The Walking Dead / Kyle W. Bishop
5. The monster in the mirror: reflecting and deflecting the mobility of gendered violence onscreen / Megan Foley
6. Intersectionality bites: metaphors of race and sexuality in HBO's True Blood / Peter Odell Campbell
7. Gendering the monster within: biological essentialism, sexual difference, and changing symbolic functions of the monster in popular werewolf texts / Rosalind Sibielski
Part 2: Monstrous technologies
8. Abject posthumanism: neoliberalism, biopolitics and zombies / Sherryl Vint
9. Monstrous technologies and the telepathology of everyday life / Jeremy Biles
10. Monstrous citizenships: coercion, submission, and the possibilities of resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas / Roy Osamu Kamada
11. On the frontlines of the zombie war in the Congo: digital technology, the trade in conflict minerals, and zombification / Jeffrey W. Mantz
12. Monsters by the numbers: controlling monstrosity in video games / Jaroslav Svelch
13. Killing whiteness: the critical positioning of zombie walk brides in Internet settings / Michele White
Part 3: Monstrous territories
14. Zombinations: reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary / Michael S. Drake
15. The monster within: Post-9/11 narratives of threat and the U.S. shifting terrain of terror / Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo
16. The heartland under siege: undead in the West / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
17. When matter becomes an active agent: the incorporeal monstrosity of threat in Lost / Enrica Picarelli
18. Monstrous capital: Frankenstein derivatives, financial wizards, and the spectral economy / Ryan Gillespie
19. Domesticating the monstrous in the globalizing world / Carolyn Harford
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