[Commlist] New book: Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature

*/Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and 
Literature/*

Edited by Steven Rawle and Martin Hall

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0505-2 
<https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0505-2>


Monsters have always been rampant border crossers, from Dracula’s 
journey from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla 
movies across global cities. This volume studies how their 
transnationality reflects an era of global crisis. Monstrosity has long 
been explored in a number of ways that connect gender, sexuality, class, 
race, nationality and other forms of otherness with depictions of 
monsters or monstrosity. This book, however, explores cultural flow as 
it relates to the construction of a transnational genre, by both 
producers and audiences. It also examines the ramifications of 
representations of monstrosity in socio-political terms as they relate 
to a tumultuous era of global crises. This era has of course been 
amplified and altered by the Covid pandemic, which frames much of the 
content of this collection. This ongoing crisis imbues the discourses of 
monstrosity, global catastrophe and societal and human vulnerability 
with its significant expression in artistic terms.

*Table of Contents*

Introduction: Transnational Monsters

/Steven Rawle and Martin Hall/

Chapter One

We Can’t Settle for Normality: Towards Feminist Monster Studies

/Ingvil Hellstrand, Sara E. S. Orning, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Donna 
McCormack/

Chapter Two

The Gender Monster in Indian Cinema: The Construction of the 
Transnational Other

/Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh/

Chapter Three

Beyond Anxiety and Desire: Succubi in East Asian Gothic Cinema

/Colette Balmain/

Chapter Four

Geeks Vs. Girls: Sexist Humour, Allegorical Horror and Culture Wars in 
the Brazilian Parody of /Ghostbusters/

/Diego Hoefel/

Chapter Five

Eat the Rich: The Monstrous Super-Wealthy in Contemporary Horror Cinema

/Lauren Stephenson/

Chapter Six

/Alien-ing /the Migrant: The Semiotic Power of Borders and the 
Anthropocenic Biopolitics of Monstrosity

/Gaia Giuliani/

Chapter Seven

In Search of a Midnight Tentacle: Monsters, Walls and the Photographic 
Sublime

/Andrew M. Butler/

Chapter Eight

The Commodification of the Windigo, a Traditional Algonquian Monster, in 
the Television Series /Supernatural/

/Léna Remy-Kovach/

Chapter Nine

“We Love To Drink Blood”: Monstrosity and the Terrorist Actor

/Marco Pinfari/

Chapter Ten

Immortality Immemorial: Colonial Vampires and the Climate Crisis

/Michael Dunn/

Chapter Eleven

The Dark Pedagogies of /Kaijū/ in the Anthropocene

/Steven Rawle/

Chapter Twelve

“Transposed”: Luis Puenzo’s /La Peste/ (1992) and the Danger of 
Inaction, and Inevitability

/Martin Hall/

Chapter Thirteen

“I’m not a gravedigger” – Rethinking Monstrosity in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

/Gustavo Racy/


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