Monster culture in the 21st century : a reader /
"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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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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- Introduction: Toward a Comprehensive Monster Theory in the 21st Century by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui1. Ontology and Monstrosity by Amit S. RaiPart I: Monstrous Identities 2. Heading Towards the Past: The Twilight Vampire Figure as Surveillance Metaphor by Florian Grandena3. Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times by Susana Loza4. Battling Monsters and Becoming Monstrous: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead by Kyle W. Bishop5. The Monster in the Mirror: Reflecting and Deflecting the Mobility of Gendered Violence Onscreen by Megan Foley6. Intersectionality Bites: Metaphors of Race and Sexuality in HBO's True Blood by Peter Campbell7. Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts by Rosalind SibielskiPart II: Monstrous Technologies 8. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics and Zombies by Sherryl Vint 9. Monstrous Technologies and the Telepathology of Everyday Life by Jeremy Biles10. Monstrous Citizenships: Coercion, Submission, and the Possibilities of Resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas by Roy Osamu Kamada11. On the Frontlines of the Zombie War in the Congo: Digital Technology, the Trade in Conflict Minerals, and Zombification by Jeffrey W. Mantz12. Monsters by the Numbers: Controlling Monstrosity in Video Games by Jaroslav Švelch 13. Killing Whiteness:The Critical Positioning of Zombie Walk Brides in Internet Settings by Michele WhitePart III: Monstrous Territories 14. Zombinations: Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary by Michael S. Drake15. The Monster Within: Post-9/11 Narratives of Threat and the U.S. Shifting Terrain of Terror by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo16. The Heartland Under Siege: Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper17. When Matter Becomes an Active Agent: The Incorporeal Monstrosity of Threat in Lost by Enrica Picarelli18. Monstrous Capital: Frankenstein Derivatives, Financial Wizards, and the Spectral Economy by Ryan Gillespie19. Domesticating the Monstrous in the Globalizing World by Carolyn HarfordAbout the Contributors Index.