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The last midnight : essays on apocalyptic narratives in millennial media /
"This collection of new essays explores apocalyptic themes and narratives in a variety of post-millennial media, including film, television, video games, webisodes and smartphone apps"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
©2016.
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| Colección: | Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ;
53. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; Preface (Amanda Firestone); Introduction (Mary F. Pharr, Leisa A. Clark and Amanda Firestone); Prelude-We Don't Want to Miss a Thing: Millennial Technologies of Participation and Intimacy (Andrew McAlister); Part I: Culture, Values and Anxiety; The South Will Rise Again: Contagion, War and Reconstruction in The Walking Dead, Seasons One Through Five (Angela Tenga); The Recuperation of Wounded Hegemonic Masculinity on Doomsday Preppers (Tiffany A. Christian).
- The Last Non-Judgment: Postmodern Apocalypse in Battlestar Galactica (Stephen Joyce)The Emergence of the Lost Apocalypse from 28 Days Later to Snowpiercer (Mark McCarthy); Part II: Globalization, Corporate Power and Class Struggles; Going Viral in a World Gone Global: How Contagion Reinvents the Outbreak Narrative (Dahlia Schweitzer); The Second Coming of Left Behind and the Deglobalization of Christian Apocalypse (Tim Bryant); Corporate Abuse and Social Inequality in RoboCop and Fido (Bill Clemente).
- We Go Forward: An Inquiry into The Hunger Games and Other Class-Based Dystopias in Millennial Cinema (Lennart Soberon)Part III: Memory and Identity; Determined About Determinism: Genetic Manipulation, Memory and Identity in Shaping the Postapocalyptic Self in Dark Angel and Divergent (Max Despain); The Apocalyptic Mental Time Travel Film: Erasing Disaster in Edge of Tomorrow and X-Men: Days of Future Past (Ryan Lizardi); In the Flesh: The Politics of Apocalyptic Memory (Frances Auld); In Search of a New Paradise and the Construction of Hell in The 100 (Ceren Mert and Amanda Firestone).
- Part IV: Simulation, Psychology and InevitabilityThe Apocalypse Will Not Take Place: Megamonster Films (Cloverfield, Pacific Rim, Godzilla) in the Postmodern Age (Sharon Diane King); Psychological Significance Within Postapocalyptic Film: Two Unique Approaches to Adaptation (Patrick L. Smith); "To Err Is Human": The Human Species and the Inevitable Apocalypse in The World's End (Mary F. Pharr); Part V: Being Human in a Techno-Universe; More Man Than Machine: The Construction of Body and Identity in Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Leisa A. Clark).
- Techno-Apocalypse: Technology, Religion and Ideology in Bryan Singer's H+ (Eddie Brennan)Technoscience as Alien Invasion in XCOM: Enemy Within (Bjarke Liboriussen); Running for My Life: Convergence Culture, Transmedia Storytelling and Community Building in the Smartphone Application Zombies, Run! (Amanda Firestone); Appendix: Apocalyptic Criticism, Films, Television Series and Video Games (Leisa A. Clark, Mary F. Pharr and Amanda Firestone); About the Contributors ; Index.