Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary Zombies, Vampires, and Witches
Radical Monstrosity in Literature, Film, and TV
This book explores zombies, vampires, and witches in contemporary popular culture from a feminist perspective, analyzing a range of novels, television series, and films. Though some popular texts (from Harry Potter to Twilight) still use historically inherited conventions, many millennial texts (like True Blood, Maleficent, and The Walking Dead) utilize feminist-friendly monster-figures to critique regressive patriarchal ideologies, champion female monstrosity and female agency, and/or envision alternative socio-cultural formations. This book contributes to discussions in feminism, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, film studies, and contemporary literature.
janvier 2026, env. 244 pages, Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-1-138-90688-4