| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: After the World Ends, Again; Barbara Gurr; PART I: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME; 1. Organisms and Human Bodies as Contagions in the Post-Apocalyptic State; Robert Booth; 2. Masculinity, Race, and the (Re?)Imagined American Frontier; Barbara Gurr; 3. Harbinger of Death: Starbuck and the Future of Woman in the Post-Apocalyptic Universe of Battlestar Galactica;Tracey Raney and Michelle Meagher; 4. The Visibility and Invisibility of Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality in The Hunger GameS; Mary Burke and Maura Kelly; 5. Post-Apocalyptic Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Firefly; J. Edward Sumerau and Sarah L. Jirek; PART II: THE FUTURE IN FLUX; 6. Queer Resistance in an Imperfect Allegory: The Politics of Sexuality in True Blood; Stacy Missari; 7. Woman as Evolution: The Feminist Promise of the Resident Evil Film Series; Andrea Harris; 8. Cops and Zombies: Hierarchy and Social Location in The Walking Dead; Melissa Lavin and Brian Lowe; 9. 'We don't do history': Constructing Masculinity in a World of Blood; Amanda Hobson; 10. The Apocalypse Is No-Thing To Wish For: Revisioning Traumatic Masculinities in John Hillcoat's The Road; Brent Strang; 11. Propagation and Procreation: the Zombie and the ChildL; James Berger; Afterward; Barbara Gurr |
| Summary |
"This multidisciplinary collection examines post-apocalyptic TV and film for the ways in which these narratives reveal, reproduce, and occasionally resist twenty-first century anxieties and desires around race, gender, and sexuality. Contributors consider the complex interplay between popular culture, social fears and desires, hope and horror through readings of the post-apocalypse in The Walking Dead, True Blood, Falling Skies, Resident Evil, and others"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Apocalyptic television programs -- History and criticism
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Apocalyptic films -- History and criticism
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Sex role on television.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Race in motion pictures.
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Race on television.
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Television programs -- Social aspects
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Film, TV & radio.
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Society & culture: general.
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Popular culture.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Apocalyptic films
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Apocalyptic television programs
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Race in motion pictures
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Race on television
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Sex role in motion pictures
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Sex role on television
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Television programs -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gurr, Barbara Anne, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137493316 |
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1137493313 |
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1349570419 |
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9781349570416 |
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