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Natalie Wilson is a gender studies professor at Cal State San Marcos in San Diego, California. Her blogs include Dead Ends and Professor, What if.

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Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race. The analysis, which covers over 70 narratives, is organized around four primary monstrous figures--zombies, vampires, witches and monstrous women. Arguing that the current horror renaissance is populated with willful monsters that subvert prevailing cultural norms and systems of power, the discussion reads horror in relation to topics of particular import in the contemporary moment--rampant sexual violence, unbridled capitalist greed, brutality against people of color, militarism, and the patriarchy's refusal to die. Examining ground-breaking films and television shows such as Get Out, Us, The Babadook, A Quiet Place, Stranger Things, Penny Dreadful, and The Passage, as well as works by key authors like Justin Cronin, Carmen Maria Machado, Helen Oyeyemi, Margo Lanagan, and Jeanette Winterson, this monograph offers a thorough account of the horror landscape and what it says about the 21st century world.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Monster Matters

1. Staying Woke in an Undead World
   Section 1: Lurching Engagements with Gender, Race and Class
   Section 2: Eradicating Rape Culture ­Zombie-Style
   Section 3: The Hopeful Apocalypse and the Zombie Child
   Section 4: Undead Conservativism: "Legitimate" Zombie Rape and "Necessary" War
2. Draining the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
   Section 1: The Rise of the Vampire Activist
   Section 2: ­Post-Traumatic Vampire Disorder
   Section 3: Ethical Vampirism
   Section 4: Viral Vampires and Dystopian Futures
3. Wicked Good
   Section 1: Revising Witch History
   Section 2: Patriarchy Be Damned
   Section 3: ­Post-Millennial Fantasy and Fairy Tale Witches
   Section 4: Conjuring Retribution
4. Woman, Thy Name Is Monster
   Section 1: Gothic Monstrosity in Feminist Guise
   Section 2: Get Out of My House! Banishing Systemic Monsters
   Section 3: Gendered Discontent in 21st Century Creature Features
   Section 4: Medusa Figures in ­Post-Millennial Horror
   Conclusion: The Monster's Tools
   Chapter Notes
   Bibliography
   Film and Television Series
   Index