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Introduction: Of Masculine, Monstrous, and Me,y overpriced bucket of soda and barrel of popcorn. At this point, you’re tolerating the pre-programming, all the dross that precedes the trailers. Included in this lackluster cavalcade are some of the same commercials that come at you on television. Imagine that one of these advertisements manages t

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,Coda: The Monster’s Suit,ed in the preceding chapters, when dealing with movie monstrosity, a host of issues interact: gender, socioeconomics, warfare, sexuality, able-bodiedness, race. Some films reify the human/monster binary to endorse a social “normal.” Some films blur that boundary, thereby distressing the very concept