Race Gender And Sexuality In Post Apocalyptic Tv And Film
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Author | : Barbara Gurr |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137493313 |
This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals through sociological, anthropological, historical, and feminist approaches.
Author | : Barbara Gurr |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137493313 |
This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals through sociological, anthropological, historical, and feminist approaches.
Author | : Mark Richard Mccarthy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : 28 days later (Motion picture) |
ISBN | : |
Concentrating on six representative media sites, 28 Days Later (2002), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Land of the Dead (2005), Children of Men (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), and one television series The Walking Dead (2010-present), this dissertation examines the strain of post-millennial apocalyptic media emphasizing a neo-liberal form of collaboration as the path to survival. Unlike traditional collaboration, the neo-liberal construction centers on the individuals responsibility in maintaining harmony through intra-group homogeny. Through close textual analysis, critical race theory, and feminist media studies, this project seeks to understand how post-racial and post-feminist representational strategies elide inequality and ignore tensions surrounding racial or gender differences to create harmony-through-homogeny in popular apocalyptic film and television.
Author | : Carlen Lavigne |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2018-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476634459 |
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.
Author | : Eve Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781501331114 |
Author | : Jason Haslam |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-05-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317574257 |
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories, and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies, from the specifics of race and gender at different points in American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions of such identity categories. SF has already become central to discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human —past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race studies, will find this volume invaluable.
Author | : Tonisha Marie Calbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Apocalyptic literature |
ISBN | : |
This dissertation examines how recent works of Black apocalyptic fiction represent the opportunities and limits of crisis as a driver of radical social change. Black apocalyptic fiction deals explicitly and substantively with what it means to be Black during, and in the aftermath of, apocalypse. It is a subset of the genre of Black speculative fiction, a broad category for texts by the African diaspora that resist purely realist or mimetic representation of the world and encompasses several genres, most commonly science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and horror. Black speculative fiction has garnered considerable academic interest in recent years and has been recognized as a rich site for analyzing race and racial differences in popular culture. This project joins the emerging critical conversation of scholars such as Isiah Lavender III, Ramon Saldivar, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen Barr, to analyze how Black writers engage with, challenge, and revise the conventions of the speculative genres. However, critical engagement with apocalypse in Black speculative fiction is still relatively sparse, as is scholarship addressing the representations of race and gender in Black apocalyptic fiction. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, I address this gap in current scholarship through a sustained consideration of Black apocalyptic fiction and the intersections of race and gender therein. This dissertation begins to answer the question of how race and gender impact the potential for radical change in the wake of extreme crisis. Literary representations of apocalypse provide one form of what Nnedi Okorafor calls “the distancing and associating effect” of science fiction. They depict familiar spaces made strange through the lens of total destruction. Apocalypse narratives have a long history and have served many functions over time, including articulation of societal anxieties, social critique, and utopian striving. Black apocalyptic fiction extends this work to focus on the impact of apocalypse on those individuals and groups at the margins of society. Fundamentally, these texts recognize that race and gender continue to shape experiences and outcomes for people of color and that ideologies of racism and sexism are as apt to survive as those oppressed by them. At the same time, the destabilizing nature of crisis creates a unique opportunity for profound social change. Looking at Octavia Butler’s Parable series, Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, I analyze how these Black speculative authors construct apocalypse in opposition to the racial and gendered violences of their own realities, namely the racial unrest of Los Angeles in the 1990s, the genocidal war in Darfur in the early 2000s, and the false promise of a postracial America during the Obama era. In these narratives, what is and is not possible in the wake of apocalypse often comes down to a clash between the imagined futures of the multiply marginalized and the idealized past of those benefitting most from current systems of power. Ultimately, I argue that the historical weight of oppressions tied to Black female and male identity constrict the utopian potential of apocalypse.
Author | : Eve Bennett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501331086 |
In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters were either threatened or actually took place. During the same period numerous commentators observed that the American media's representation of gender had undergone a marked regression, possibly, it was suggested, as a consequence of the 9/11 attacks and the feelings of weakness and insecurity they engendered in the nation's men. Eve Bennett investigates whether the same impulse to return to traditional images of masculinity and femininity can be found in the contemporary cycle of apocalyptic series, programmes which, like 9/11 itself, present plenty of opportunity for narratives of damsels-in-distress and heroic male rescuers. However, as this book shows, whether such narratives play out in the expected manner is another matter.
Author | : Elizabeth Erwin |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018-08-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476634769 |
From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, gender and sexuality. Critics and fans have contended that the show's identity politics have veered toward the decidedly conservative, offering up traditional understandings of masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, racial hierarchy and white supremacy. This collection of new essays explores the complicated nature of relationships among the story's survivors. In the end, characters demonstrate often-surprising shifts that consistently comment on identity politics. Whether agreeing or disagreeing with critics, these essays offer a rich view of how gender, race, class and sexuality intersect in complex new ways in the TV series and comics.
Author | : Melanie A. Marotta |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476636729 |
From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years. These twelve new essays concentrate on the female characters in the contemporary science fiction western, addressing themes of power, agency, intersectionality and the body. Discussing popular works such as Fringe, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mass Effect, the essayists shed new light on the gender dynamics of these beloved franchises, emphasizing inclusion and diversity with their critical perspectives.