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Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2015
  • Motion pictures
  • History and criticism
  • Race on television
  • Apocalyptic films
  • Sex role on television
  • Social aspects
  • Television programs
  • Sex role in motion pictures

"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"--