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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Lisa A., 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.