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Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival

Title
  1. Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Author
  1. Lavigne, Carlen, 1976-

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Description
  1. viii, 186 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Western television programs
  2. Apocalyptic television programs
  3. Sex role on television
  4. Race on television
  5. Western television programs > United States > History > 21st century
  6. History
  7. 2000-2099
  8. United States
  9. Patriarchy on television
  10. Apocalyptic television programs > United States > History > 21st century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. MWGT 18-6879
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Author
  1. Lavigne, Carlen, 1976- author.
Title
  1. Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
Publisher
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 2000-2099
LCCN
  1. 2018035671
ISBN
  1. 9780786499069 paperback alkaline paper
  2. 0786499060 paperback alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. MWGT 18-6879
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