Zombies, Migrants, and Queers - Camilla Fojas

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08240-5 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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 freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white protagonists.

Camilla Fojas teaches in media studies and American studies at the University of Virginia. Her books include Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier and Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 26 black & white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 286 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-252-08240-0 / 0252082400
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08240-5 / 9780252082405
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