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 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.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Preface

Introduction: Zombies, Vampires and Mutants, Oh My!

1.¿The Walking Dead as Biopolitical Nightmare

2.¿Feminist Post-Structuralism, Jessica Jones and Rape Culture

3.¿Normalizing and Bio-Powers in the World of Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood

4.¿The X-Men and Racialization as Bio-Political Normalization

5.¿Difference as Intersectional in the Harry Potter Universe

6.¿Sense8, Nationhood and Global Power Relations

Conclusion: Telling Stories, Transforming Worlds

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Lisa A. King is an associate professor of philosophy at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa A. King
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2020
• EAN: 9781476668673
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6867-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 231 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides