The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and Comics
- ISBN-10
- 1476668493
- ISBN-13
- 9781476668499
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-08-21
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Authors
- Dawn Keetley, Elizabeth Erwin
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Queering the Family in The Walking Dead
By John R. ZieglerIn Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film, ed. Barbara Gurr, 149–164. New York: Palgrave. Bishop, Kyle [William]. 2010a. American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture.
-
Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America
By Penelope Ingram... Edge . ” Los Angeles Times , May 30 , 2020 . https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the ... 2013. Star Trek Into Darkness . Paramount . 131 min . DVD . Abrams , J. J. , director . 2015. Star Wars : Episode VII ...
-
Beyond the Living Dead: Essays on the Romero Legacy
By Bruce Peabody, Gloria PastorinoSince its first appearance in Night of the Living Dead, the Last Night story in its various incarnations has occupied an important and dynamic place in zombie narrative, expressing the human need not just to narrate, but also to be ...
-
Dead, White and Blue: The Zombie and American National Identity
By Aaron W Clayton... Dead : Zombies , Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy . Christopher M. Moreman . 2018 The Politics of Race , Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead : Essays on the Televi- sion Series and Comics . Edited by Elizabeth Erwin and Dawn ...
-
Reading the Great American Zombie: The Living Dead in Literature
By T. May Stone... Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition. Edited by ... The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on ... The Living Dead in Literature T. May Stone.
-
Faith and the Zombie: Critical Essays on the End of the World and Beyond
By Simon Bacon... Myth and U.S. Politics Since 1900. Nor- man: University of Oklahoma Press. Smith, John, and Thomas Appleton. 1997. “Introduction.” A Mythic Land Apart: Reassess- ing Southerners and Their History, edited by John Smith, John and Thomas ...
-
Parenting in the Zombie Apocalypse: The Psychology of Raising Children in a Time of Horror
By Steven J. Kirsh2001 American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture. Kyle William Bishop. ... 2017 The Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie. William Shakespeare and Chase Pielak.
-
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction
By Wendy Gay Pearson, Sonja Fritzsche, Lisa YaszekMichael Pitts is Lecturer of English at the University of New York in Prague and author of Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man (2021). Agnieszka Podruczna, PhD ...
-
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film
By Barbara GurrThis 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.
-
Willful Monstrosity: Gender and Race in 21st Century Horror
By Natalie WilsonLike its strange predecessor, The OA combines elements of science-fiction, mystery, horror, and the Creature Feature. The show centers on a willfully monstrous female with three overlapping identities, that of Nina Azarova, ...