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Race, gender, and sexuality in post-apocalyptic TV and film

Title
Race, gender, and sexuality in post-apocalyptic TV and film / edited by Barbara Gurr.
Publication
  • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
Gurr, Barbara Anne
Description
x, 183 pages; 23 cm
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"--
Subject
  • Apocalyptic television programs > History and criticism
  • Apocalyptic films > History and criticism
  • Sex role on television
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Race in motion pictures
  • Race on television
  • Television programs > Social aspects
  • Motion pictures > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
MFL 15-6619
ISBN
  • 9781137501509 (hardback)
  • 1137501502 (hardback)
  • 9781137493330 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781137493316 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015025520
OCLC
927158376
Title
Race, gender, and sexuality in post-apocalyptic TV and film / edited by Barbara Gurr.
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Gurr, Barbara Anne, editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 15-6619
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