Zombies, Migrants, and Queers : Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture /

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"The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fojas, Camilla, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Popular culture.
Mass media and minorities.
Mass media and culture.
Capitalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Medias et culture > États-Unis > Histoire.
Violence > United States > History.
Capitalism > United States > History.
Mass media and minorities > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Mass media and culture > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: C.R.E.A.M.: capitalism ruins everything around me
  • Border absurd: the end-times and the end of the line
  • Migrant domestics and the fictions of imperial capitalism
  • Zombie capitalism: night of the living debt
  • Queer incarcerations
  • Sinkholes and seismic shifts: ecological and other disasters
  • Imperial ruins and resurgence
  • Afterword: Racial capitalism redux.

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