Power and Marginalization in Popular Culture

<p> 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.</p>