Apocalypse TV

Essays on Society and Self at the End of the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade. There are now dozens of apocalyptic television shows and we use the "end times" to describe everything from domestic politics and international conflict, to the weather and our views of the future.This collection of new essays asks what it means to live in a world inundated with representations of the apocalypse. Focusing on such series as The Walking Dead, The Strain, Battlestar Galactica, Doomsday Preppers, Westworld, The Handmaid's Tale, they explore how the serialization of the end of the world allows for a closer examination of the disintegration of humanity--while it happens. Do these shows prepare us for what is to come? Do they spur us to action? Might they even be causing the apocalypse?

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-19
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt277 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor206
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476678757

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Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.. Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Apocalyptic Saturations; or, The End of the World Will NotMichael G. Cornelius and Sherry GinnApocalyptic Television, Hobbes’s Moral Psychology and the Tenuous Nature of Liberal Democratic ValuesWilliam S. AllenPost-Apocalyptic Competition and Cooperation in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Walking DeadSherry GinnThe Long Winter of Discontent: The Changing Society of SurvivorsFernando-Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Ignacio Juvé and Emiliano AguilarRisk Without End? The Seriality of Risk, the Outbreak Narrative and Serial Post-Apocalypse in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The StrainSebastian MüllerDriven to Extinction, Again: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and the Irresistible ApocalypseTony Perrello and C. Anne EngertThe End of Everything: Survival Narratives and Everyday Heroism in Battlestar GalacticaE. Leigh McKagenApocalypse(s) Already: Doomsday Preppers at the End of The(ir) WorldsJZ LongReinvesting in the Rapture: Apocalypse and Faith in The LeftoversChristina WilkinsSocial Life and Death in The Leftovers: Surviving the Personal ApocalypseDerek R. Sweet“How many times have I died?”: Time Loops, Post-Human Reversion and the Editable Self in The MagiciansMichael G. CorneliusWestworld and the Apocalyptic CycleAdam EllerbrockPostnatural Comedy in The Last Man on EarthJohn EliaAppendix 1: Apocalypse Television SeriesAppendix 2: “Darkness”Lord ByronAbout the ContributorsIndex