Research Catalog

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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Holdings

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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 films
• Apocalyptic films > History and criticism
• Apocalyptic television programs
• Apocalyptic television programs > History and criticism
• Motion pictures > Social aspects
• PERFORMING ARTS > Reference
• Race in motion pictures
• Race in motion pictures
• Race on television
• Science
• Sex role in motion pictures
• Sex role in motion pictures
• Sex role on television
• Sex role on television
• Television programs > Social aspects
• Television programs > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781137501509 (hardback)
• 1137501502 (hardback)
• 9781137493330 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137493316 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015025520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library