Power and marginalization in popular culture : the oppressed in six television and literature media franchises /
""In many pop culture texts, "monsters" can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens of Michel Foucault's normalizing and bio-powers to zombies, vampires, magicians, genetic mutants and others, asking whether thes...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Zombies, Vampires and Mutants! Oh My!
- The Walking Dead as Biopolitical Nightmare
- Feminist Post-Structuralism, Jessica Jones and Rape Culture
- Normalizing and Bio-Powers in the World of Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood
- The X-Men and Racialization as Bio-Political Normalization
- Difference as Intersectional in the Harry Potter Universe
- Sense8, Nationhood and Global Power Relations
- Conclusion: Telling Stories, Transforming Worlds.