Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival
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Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2018
- : pbk
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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"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index
収録内容
- 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
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内容説明
In twenty-first-century American television, series such as Revolution, Falling Skies, The Last Ship, or The Walking Dead engage with a variety of doomsday scenarios; whether the end times come by nuclear blast, rogue artificial intelligence, pandemic, alien invasion, or zombie uprising, there’s a TV show for that. These post-apocalyptic programs represent both longstanding tensions and contemporary cultural moments. Examining such apocalypses in light of events like 9/11 or the avian flu epidemic suggests some of the worries that keep us up at night. Analyzing these speculative new futures through critical lenses of gender, race, and sexuality further reveals the more specific ambitions and anxieties of a patriarchy in flux—particularly the desire to “return” to a mythical American frontier where the straight white male hero can take the lead in fighting off the bad guys, protecting the family, and crafting a new world order based heavily on the old. Questions about post-apocalyptic television abound: whose voices are represented? What do they want? What tomorrows are they most afraid of—and what does this tell us about the world we live in today?
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