Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction: "there's us and the dead": identity politics in The Walking Dead / Dawn Keetley -- Arte of violence: hypermasculinity as power currency in the post-apocalyptic political economy / Dustin Dunaway -- The curious case of T-Dog: a magical negro? / Elexus Jionde -- The hyperreal hillbilly: horror, melodrama and backwoods white protagonists / Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles -- "There's no niggers anymore ... there's us and the dead": masculinity in a post-racial, post-apocalyptic America / Brooke Bennett -- Becoming Glenn: Asian American masculinity / Helen K. Ho -- "Look at the flowers": meme culture and the (re)centering of hegemonic masculinities through women characters / Tiffany A. Christian -- A woman's work is never done: mothering and marriage / Elizabeth Erwin -- "We ain't ashes": Daryl, Carol and the burning away of traditional gender roles / Catherine Pugh -- The beauty of Beth Greene / Deborah Kennedy -- The sexualized heroics of Rick and Michonne / Emily Zarka -- Rules for surviving rape culture / Natalie Wilson -- "We can't just ignore the rules": queer heterosexualities / John R. Ziegler -- Afterword: from identity politics to tribalism / Dawn Keetley.
"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"--