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1 online resource (278 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 53
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Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 53.
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
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). |
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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). |
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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). |
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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). |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Apocalypse in mass media.
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Apocalypse in mass media. |
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Clark, Leisa A., 1968- editor.
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Firestone, Amanda, 1982- editor.
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Pharr, Mary, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Last midnight. Jefferson, North Carolina ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016] 9781476663234 (DLC) 2016038346 (OCoLC)948547932 |
| ISBN |
9781476625263 (electronic book) |
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1476625263 (electronic book) |
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9781476663234 |
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1476663238 |
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