The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema

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 inhabit the Earth against the apocalyptic fates of Capitalism.

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.

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.