Post-apocalyptic patriarchy : American television and gendered visions of survival /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lavigne, Carlen, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Subjects:	Apocalyptic television programs > United States > History > 21st century. Western television programs > United States > History > 21st century. Patriarchy on television. Sex role on television. Race on television.

Table of 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.