Race, gender, and sexuality in post-apocalyptic TV and film /
[Book]
edited by Barbara Gurr.
1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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"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"--
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Apocalyptic films-- History and criticism.
Apocalyptic television programs-- History and criticism.