9/11 attacks open the 21st Century into the fear of the Other, which is coincidentally at the core of the Gothic tradition. In post-911 Gothic texts, the tension of Self and Other can be seen from the gothic family (representing homeland and country) and the gothic monster (representing foreign, dangerous intruder) respectively. This essay is a close study of two sets of Hollywood films dealing with such tension - Twilight saga and The Hills Have Eyes duology. It is argued, with Foucault’s notion of Power/Knowledge, that such Hollywood gothic productions further create and hence reinforce the fear of, but not suppress, the Other. The 21st Century Gothic genre is therefore no longer subversive, but appropriated to educate the unaware public. / published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts

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by Phoebe Tse Wing Han. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- A Simple Historical Rundown of Visual Monsters --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Sexual Hybridity in Science Fiction Monsters --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Monstrous Hybridity of the Alien Mother --- p.66 / Conclusion --- p.100 / Work Cited --- p.104 / Illustrations --- p.109

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).