Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gurr, Barbara Anne

Description

1. x, 183 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "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

1. Apocalyptic films
2. Apocalyptic films > History and criticism
3. Apocalyptic television programs
4. Apocalyptic television programs > History and criticism
5. Motion pictures > Social aspects
6. PERFORMING ARTS > Reference
7. Race in motion pictures
8. Race in motion pictures
9. Race on television
10. Science
11. Sex role in motion pictures
12. Sex role in motion pictures
13. Sex role on television
14. Sex role on television
15. Television programs > Social aspects
16. Television programs > Social aspects

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain