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Power and marginalization in popular culture : the oppressed in six television and literature media franchises
- Title
- Power and marginalization in popular culture : the oppressed in six television and literature media franchises / Lisa A. King.
- Author
- King, Lisa A., 1964-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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- Description
- viii, 164 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- ""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 these stories of apparent liberation really are so. Exploring a single theme in depth across a series of pop culture texts, this book encourages a radical new understanding of liberation narratives and of political activism as a mechanism of social change."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MWGT 21-3784
- ISBN
- 9781476668673
- 1476668671
- LCCN
- 2020013663
- OCLC
- 1133654427
- Author
- King, Lisa A., 1964- author.
- Title
- Power and marginalization in popular culture : the oppressed in six television and literature media franchises / Lisa A. King.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 21-3784