1st Edition
The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema Witches, Zombies, and Cyborgs Re-enchanting the Ends of the World
By Francesco Sticchi
Copyright 2025
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book addresses the role of particular monstrous figures and apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary cinema and television and evaluates the political potential of horror and sci-fi narratives in our age of never-ending crises. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how witches, zombies, and cyborgs (among other figures) present the spectre of new people to come, of new possibilities to... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. Cyborgs: Ownership and the Self, Chapter 2. Apocalypse: Reproductive Crises and Capitalist Suicidal Machines, Chapter 3. Witches: The Transformative Struggle of Re-Commoning, Chapter 4. Zombies: Undead Retaking the Earth, Coda: How to Become a Zombie in Five Steps, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Francesco Sticchi is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of the monograph Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and works in the field of film-philosophy and ecology of media. He is co-founder of the Cinematic Precarity Research Network.
