Marina Levina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, US.Diem-My T. Bui is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago, US.

The essays in this new edited collection are . . . designed to address how monstrosity has come to represent the fears that the new century has brought with it. [...] The book does itself an injustice by calling itself a "reader" when, in fact, it is more than just a collection of articles bundled together . . . The editors have clearly worked hard to present a collection of essays in such a way that the book has a through-narrative, and for that they should be congratulated.

• Introduction: Toward a Comprehensive Monster Theory in the 21st Century by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui1. Ontology and Monstrosity by Amit S. RaiPart I: Monstrous Identities 2. Heading Towards the Past: The Twilight Vampire Figure as Surveillance Metaphor by Florian Grandena3. Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times by Susana Loza4. Battling Monsters and Becoming Monstrous: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead by Kyle W. Bishop5. The Monster in the Mirror: Reflecting and Deflecting the Mobility of Gendered Violence Onscreen by Megan Foley6. Intersectionality Bites: Metaphors of Race and Sexuality in HBO's True Blood by Peter Campbell7. Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts by Rosalind SibielskiPart II: Monstrous Technologies 8. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics and Zombies by Sherryl Vint 9. Monstrous Technologies and the Telepathology of Everyday Life by Jeremy Biles10. Monstrous Citizenships: Coercion, Submission, and the Possibilities of Resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas by Roy Osamu Kamada11. On the Frontlines of the Zombie War in the Congo: Digital Technology, the Trade in Conflict Minerals, and Zombification by Jeffrey W. Mantz12. Monsters by the Numbers: Controlling Monstrosity in Video Games by Jaroslav Švelch13. Killing Whiteness:The Critical Positioning of Zombie Walk Brides in Internet Settings by Michele WhitePart III: Monstrous Territories 14. Zombinations: Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary by Michael S. Drake15. The Monster Within: Post-9/11 Narratives of Threat and the U.S. Shifting Terrain of Terror by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo16. The Heartland Under Siege: Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper17. When Matter Becomes an Active Agent: The Incorporeal Monstrosity of Threat in Lost by Enrica Picarelli18. Monstrous Capital: Frankenstein Derivatives, Financial Wizards, and the Spectral Economy by Ryan Gillespie19. Domesticating the Monstrous in the Globalizing World by Carolyn HarfordAbout the Contributors Index

Marina Levina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, US.Diem-My T. Bui is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago, US.

The essays in this new edited collection are . . . designed to address how monstrosity has come to represent the fears that the new century has brought with it. [...] The book does itself an injustice by calling itself a "reader" when, in fact, it is more than just a collection of articles bundled together . . . The editors have clearly worked hard to present a collection of essays in such a way that the book has a through-narrative, and for that they should be congratulated.

• Introduction: Toward a Comprehensive Monster Theory in the 21st Century by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui1. Ontology and Monstrosity by Amit S. RaiPart I: Monstrous Identities 2. Heading Towards the Past: The Twilight Vampire Figure as Surveillance Metaphor by Florian Grandena3. Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times by Susana Loza4. Battling Monsters and Becoming Monstrous: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead by Kyle W. Bishop5. The Monster in the Mirror: Reflecting and Deflecting the Mobility of Gendered Violence Onscreen by Megan Foley6. Intersectionality Bites: Metaphors of Race and Sexuality in HBO's True Blood by Peter Campbell7. Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts by Rosalind SibielskiPart II: Monstrous Technologies 8. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics and Zombies by Sherryl Vint 9. Monstrous Technologies and the Telepathology of Everyday Life by Jeremy Biles10. Monstrous Citizenships: Coercion, Submission, and the Possibilities of Resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas by Roy Osamu Kamada11. On the Frontlines of the Zombie War in the Congo: Digital Technology, the Trade in Conflict Minerals, and Zombification by Jeffrey W. Mantz12. Monsters by the Numbers: Controlling Monstrosity in Video Games by Jaroslav Švelch13. Killing Whiteness:The Critical Positioning of Zombie Walk Brides in Internet Settings by Michele WhitePart III: Monstrous Territories 14. Zombinations: Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary by Michael S. Drake15. The Monster Within: Post-9/11 Narratives of Threat and the U.S. Shifting Terrain of Terror by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo16. The Heartland Under Siege: Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper17. When Matter Becomes an Active Agent: The Incorporeal Monstrosity of Threat in Lost by Enrica Picarelli18. Monstrous Capital: Frankenstein Derivatives, Financial Wizards, and the Spectral Economy by Ryan Gillespie19. Domesticating the Monstrous in the Globalizing World by Carolyn HarfordAbout the Contributors Index

Marina Levina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, US.Diem-My T. Bui is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago, US.

The essays in this new edited collection are . . . designed to address how monstrosity has come to represent the fears that the new century has brought with it. [...] The book does itself an injustice by calling itself a "reader" when, in fact, it is more than just a collection of articles bundled together . . . The editors have clearly worked hard to present a collection of essays in such a way that the book has a through-narrative, and for that they should be congratulated.

• Introduction: Toward a Comprehensive Monster Theory in the 21st Century by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui1. Ontology and Monstrosity by Amit S. RaiPart I: Monstrous Identities 2. Heading Towards the Past: The Twilight Vampire Figure as Surveillance Metaphor by Florian Grandena3. Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times by Susana Loza4. Battling Monsters and Becoming Monstrous: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead by Kyle W. Bishop5. The Monster in the Mirror: Reflecting and Deflecting the Mobility of Gendered Violence Onscreen by Megan Foley6. Intersectionality Bites: Metaphors of Race and Sexuality in HBO's True Blood by Peter Campbell7. Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts by Rosalind SibielskiPart II: Monstrous Technologies 8. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics and Zombies by Sherryl Vint 9. Monstrous Technologies and the Telepathology of Everyday Life by Jeremy Biles10. Monstrous Citizenships: Coercion, Submission, and the Possibilities of Resistance in Never Let Me Go and Cloud Atlas by Roy Osamu Kamada11. On the Frontlines of the Zombie War in the Congo: Digital Technology, the Trade in Conflict Minerals, and Zombification by Jeffrey W. Mantz12. Monsters by the Numbers: Controlling Monstrosity in Video Games by Jaroslav Švelch13. Killing Whiteness:The Critical Positioning of Zombie Walk Brides in Internet Settings by Michele WhitePart III: Monstrous Territories 14. Zombinations: Reading the undead as debt and guilt in the national imaginary by Michael S. Drake15. The Monster Within: Post-9/11 Narratives of Threat and the U.S. Shifting Terrain of Terror by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo16. The Heartland Under Siege: Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper17. When Matter Becomes an Active Agent: The Incorporeal Monstrosity of Threat in Lost by Enrica Picarelli18. Monstrous Capital: Frankenstein Derivatives, Financial Wizards, and the Spectral Economy by Ryan Gillespie19. Domesticating the Monstrous in the Globalizing World by Carolyn HarfordAbout the Contributors Index