01801nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_219751 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 1396000 791.43 M756 Monster culture in the 21st century : A reader Edited by Marina Levina and Diem-My T. Bui. New York Bloomsbury 2013 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 Monsters in motion pictures.,Monsters on television,Quái vật trên truyền hình,Quái vật trong hình ảnh chuyển động. Tuyến Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ