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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 of people, technologies, and
disease have produced great social, political, and economical
uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity
has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing
popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight,
Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar,
it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become
omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social
anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century.
The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a
metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which
change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach
introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity
in culture.
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