Marina Levina

FYI Review - The volume contain the following essays:
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… (mais)