Monstrosity, Colonialism, and the Racial State

Johnson, Sylvester A.

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“…Violations may include deviant aesthetics, physicality, predictability, sexuality, or morality or failures to be easily categorized. Additionally, monstrous bodies can, and often are, raced in ways that rely on colonial ideas of superiority (Johnson 2015). 2.…”

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Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing

Huft

2022

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Framing as a metacommunicative device establishes the narrative of a given story and mobilizes emotional support. Within the framework of monster theory, horror movies are seen as a way of framing common fears about moral decay, concerns about the future, anxiety about outgroup members, and spiritual unknowns. In the classroom, we explore the monstrous body as a stand-in for the demonized (often literally) outgroup. Through tracing some of the historic roots of monsters, students are better able to see monsters as a recurring framing device for social fears. Utilizing the concepts of frame alignment (aligning individuals’ frames with larger social movement frames) and frame analysis (investigating the processes and mechanisms people utilize to make sense of situations), exploration of various subgenres of horror (including psychological horror, body horror, killers, monsters, zombies, and the paranormal) flesh out how frames are amplified, bridged, transformed, and extended.

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Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing

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Militarized Global Apartheid

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three major stories in the New York Times included an article about the disastrous loss of over eight hundred lives in the Mediterranean when a ship filled with hopeful mi grants sank on April 18, an article about the arrest of six young Somali Americans in Minnesota who were suspected of attempting to join isis, and an article about the hundreds of thousands of "missing black men" across the country who are in prison. These seemingly disparate stories about normal topics of the day in 2015-the upsurge in the number of refugees attempting to reach Eu rope, security fears about immigrants, and the disproportionate incarceration of Black men in the United States-reflect an emergent new world order in which race and mobility feature as primary variables for which heightened security and militarization are the answer. This book attempts to sketch out some dimensions of this new world order, a militarized form of global apartheid. 1 Militarized global apartheid is a loosely integrated effort by countries in the global north to protect themselves

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Monstrosity, Colonialism, and the Racial State

Cited by 10 publications

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Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing

Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing

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