ISBN:
9781441178398
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (344 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Monster Culture in the 21st Century : A Reader
DDC:
306.09051
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Copyright; Contents; Index; 19 Domesticating the monstrous in a globalizing world Carolyn Harford; 18 Monstrous capital: Frankenstein derivatives, financial wizards, and the spectral economy Ryan Gillespie; 17 When matter becomes an active agent: The incorporeal monstrosity of threat in Lost Enrica Picarelli; 16 The heartland under siege: Undead in the West Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper; 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
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14 Zombinations: Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary Michael S. DrakePART THREE Monstrous territories; 13 Killing whiteness: The critical positioning of zombie walk brides in internet settings Michele White; 12 Monsters by the numbers: Controlling monstrosity in video games Jaroslav Švelch; 11 On the frontlines of the zombie war in the Congo: Digital technology, the trade in conflict minerals, and zombification Jeffrey W. Mantz; 10 Monstrous citizenships: Coercion, submission, and the possibilities of resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas Roy Osamu Kamada
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9 Monstrous technologies and the telepathology of everyday life Jeremy Biles8 Abject posthumanism: Neoliberalism, biopolitics, and zombies Sherryl Vint; PART TWO Monstrous technologies; 7 Gendering the monster within: Biological essentialism, sexual difference, and changing symbolic functions of the monster in popular werewolf texts Rosalind Sibielski; 6 Intersectionality bites: Metaphors of race and sexuality in HBOs True Blood Peter Odell Campbell; 5 The Monster in the mirror: Reflecting and deflecting the mobility of gendered violence onscreen Megan Foley
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Battling monsters and becoming monstrous: Human devolution in The Walking Dead Kyle W. Bishop3 Playing alien in post-racial times Susana Loza; 2 Heading toward the past: The Twilight vampire figure as surveillance metaphor Florian Grandena; 1 Ontology and monstrosity Amit S. Rai; PART ONE Monstrous identities; Introduction: Toward a comprehensive monster theory in the 21st century Marina Levina and Diem-My T. Bui; Acknowledgments; About the contributors; Figure list; Dedication; Title
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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