Monster culture in the 21st century : a reader / edited by Marina Levina and Diem-My T. Bui.
"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 o...
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Švelch
- 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.