Book 2015
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"--