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Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival
- Title
- Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
- Author
- Lavigne, Carlen, 1976-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 186 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Twenty-first century American television series have depicted a variety of doomsday scenarios. The author analyzes these speculative futures in terms of gender, race and sexuality, revealing the fears and ambitions of a patriarchy in flux, exemplified by the "return" to a mythical American frontier and crafts a new world order based on the old"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Nuclear attack or nanite apocalypse? the new wild west -- Pandemics, plagues and contagion -- The alien other -- The zombie renaissance -- Parody and the post-apocalypse -- After the fall: the post-post-apocalypse -- Contexts and conclusions.
- Call Number
- MWGT 18-6879
- ISBN
- 9780786499069
- 0786499060
- LCCN
- 2018035671
- OCLC
- 1038219559
- Author
- Lavigne, Carlen, 1976- author.
- Title
- Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 18-6879