Carlen Lavigne

Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy

American Television and Gendered Visions of Survival

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Produktbeschreibung

Twenty-first century American television series such as Revolution, Falling Skies, The Last Ship and The Walking Dead have depicted a variety of doomsday scenarios--nuclear cataclysm, rogue artificial intelligence, pandemic, alien invasion or zombie uprising. These scenarios speak to longstanding societal anxieties and contemporary calamities like 9/11 or the avian flu epidemic. Questions about post-apocalyptic television abound: whose voices are represented? What tomorrows are they most afraid of? What does this tell us about the world we live in today? The author analyzes these speculative futures in terms of gender, race and sexuality, revealing the fears and ambitions of a patriarchy in flux, as exemplified by the "return" to a mythical American frontier where the white male hero fights for survival, protects his family and crafts a new world order based on the old.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780786499069
• ISBN-10: 0786499060
• Artikelnr.: 52906756

Autorenporträt

Carlen Lavigne, Ph.D. (communications studies), teaches at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada, and has published works on genre fiction, gender, queer studies and television.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1.
Nuclear Attack or Nanite Apocalypse? The New Wild West Jericho Revolution Conclusion 2.
Pandemics, Plagues and Contagion Jeremiah The Last Ship Conclusion 3.
The Alien Other Falling Skies Colony Defiance Conclusion 4.
The Zombie Renaissance The Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead Z Nation Conclusion 5.
Parody and the Post-Apocalypse The Last Man on Earth Conclusion 6.
After the Fall-The Post-Post-Apocalypse Into the Badlands The 100 Wayward Pines Conclusion Contexts and Conclusions Chapter Notes Works Cited Index