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

by Barbara Gurr

Motion picturesPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & CriticismHistory and criticismSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender StudiesRace on televisionApocalyptic filmsSex role on television

"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"--

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