Post Apocalyptic Patriarchy

Author : Carlen Lavigne
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786499060
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy written by Carlen Lavigne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carlen Lavigne
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634459
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy written by Carlen Lavigne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  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 : Barbara Gurr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137493313
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film written by Barbara Gurr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137486503
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction written by Susan Watkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Author : Renae L. Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793605564
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse written by Renae L. Mitchell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers have placed midwives, pregnant women, and mothers at the forefront of their novels, transforming them from the hapless victims of male oppressors to protagonists who are instrumental in transforming the post-apocalyptic social landscape from one that attempts to reconstruct a patriarchal past to one that safeguards, validates, and even lauds maternity as a form of empowerment. In a novelistic future devastated landscape in which human civilizations are shattered and waver at the brink of extinction, women who embody facets of maternity are taking the reins of rebuilding human societies by overturning patriarchal assumptions of femininity, reclaiming intersectional autonomy, and (re)visioning the possibilities for a declining anthropocene.

Author : Barbara Gurr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137493313
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film written by Barbara Gurr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Kramp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003847579
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience written by Michael Kramp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of White male supremacy. Kramp traces an imaginative failure and an imaginative success; his focus on British speculative fiction published between 1870 and 1900 demonstrates how even this elastic and wildly inventive literary form remains incapable of promoting non- patriarchal masculinity, and he attributes this inability to the creative resiliency of white male supremacy. He demonstrates the inventive use of diverse resources that we frequently view as custom or uncomplicated history and a versatility that we often dismiss as sheer power. He draws on an archive of late nineteenth- century speculative fiction to detail a versatile patriarchal toolbox, including hegemonic masculinity, control of dangerous women, hyperbolic and sentimental performances of male sovereignty, and reversions to authoritarian, at times violent conduct. He also considers how the classic military strategy of dividing to conquer undergirds all these tactics, inhibiting our creating energies and dynamic collaborations. Various chapters demonstrate the enterprise, ingenuity, and adaptability of patriarchy to refashion and rejustify normalized systems of oppression. While scholars have consistently identified moments and agents of resistance to patriarchal structures by highlighting creativity, resiliency, and resourcefulness, Kramp’s project reveals how patriarchy itself is creative, resilient, and resourceful.

Author : Catherine Keller
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Now and Then written by Catherine Keller and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work, Catherine Keller brilliantly explores the ways that the Christian prophecy of apocalypse - the fiery end of the world on Earth - has shaped Western thought and history. Through innovative readings of the Bible, theology and philosophy, feminist and poststructuralist theory, fiction and poetry, Western history, and current politics, Keller shows how the myth of the apocalypse has shaped our basic habits of text, time, place, community, and gender. Apocalypse Now and Then reveals the apocalyptic links of movements and events as diverse as colonialism, urbanization, nineteenth-century American feminism, and the current environmental crisis. Throughout the book, Keller constructs an imaginative counter-apocalypse that neither abdicates the prophetic passion for justice nor surrenders to the doomsday dualisms of the apocalypse.

Author : Michael G. Cornelius
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678758
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse TV written by Michael G. Cornelius and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Amy L. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475501
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ...But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur written by Amy L. Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is rooted in modern literature, film and mythology. This collection of new essays considers the implications of this scientifically impossible (but perhaps imminent) event, examining real-world responses to pandemic contagion and civic chaos, as well as those from Hollywood and popular culture. The contributors discuss the zombie apocalypse as a metaphor for actual catastrophes and estimate the probabilities of human survival and behavior during an undead invasion.