Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Call Numbers
G 2018/6696
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Nuclear attack or nanite apocalypse? the new wild west -- Pandemics, plagues and contagion -- The alien other -- The zombie renaissance -- Parody and the post-apocalypse -- After the fall: the post-post-apocalypse -- Contexts and conclusions.
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Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"Twenty-first century American television series have depicted a variety of doomsday scenarios. The author analyzes these speculative futures in terms of gender, race and sexuality, revealing the fears and ambitions of a patriarchy in flux, exemplified by the "return" to a mythical American frontier and crafts a new world order based on the old"--...
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Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival / Carlen Lavigne.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/6696
Record Identifier
74VKVQbOXJwy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVQbOXJwy
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ISBN
0786499060 paperback alkaline paper
9780786499069 paperback alkaline paper
DDC
791.43655
MMS ID
991024198815502626
