Apocalypse TV : essays on society and self at the end of the world / edited by Michael G. Cornelius and Sherry Ginn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornelius, Michael G., editor.

Ginn, Sherry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalyptic television programs--United States--History and criticism.

Apocalyptic television programs.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Apocalypse television

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

""The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade, with no sign of stopping. And why should they? The apocalypse is everywhere. There are dozens of apocalyptic television shows currently on the air, and we use the language of the "end times" to describe everything from domestic politics and international conflict, to the weather and our own views of the future. This collection of essays asks what it means for us, as consumers of media and as members of the human race, to live in a world inundated with representations of the apocalypse. Focusing on television series including The Walking Dead, The Strain, Battlestar Galactica, Doomsday Preppers, Westworld, The Handmaids Tale , and more, these essays explore how the serialization of the end of the world allows for a more persistent and close examination of the disintegration of humanity before, after, and as it happens. Do these shows prepare us for what is to come? Do they spur us to action? Or might they even be causing the apocalypse itself?"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Apocalyptic Television, Hobbes's Moral Psychology and the Tenuous Nature of Liberal Democratic Values p. 23 / William S. Allen

Post-Apocalyptic Competition and Cooperation in The Handmaid's Tale and The Walking Dead p. 40 / Sherry Ginn

The Long Winter of Discontent: The Changing Society of Survivors p. 58 / Fernando-Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Ignacio Juvé and Emiliano Aguilar

Risk Without End? The Seriality of Risk, the Outbreak Narrative and Serial Post-Apocalypse in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain p. 71 / Sebastian Müller

Driven to Extinction, Again: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and the Irresistible Apocalypse p. 86 / Tony Perrello and C. Anne Engert

The End of Everything: Survival Narratives and Everyday Heroism in Battlestar Galactica p. 102 / E. Leigh McKagen

Apocalypse(s) Already: Doomsday Preppers at the End of The(ir) Worlds p. 113 / JZ Long

Reinvesting in the Rapture: Apocalypse and Faith in The Leftovers p. 124 / Christina Wilkins

Social Life and Death in The Leftovers: Surviving the Personal Apocalypse p. 137 / Derek R. Sweet

"How many times have I died?": Time Loops, Post-Human Reversion and the Editable Self in The Magicians p. 149 / Michael G. Cornelius

Westworld and the Apocalyptic Cycle p. 163 / Adam Ellerbrock

Postnatural Comedy in The Last Man on Earth p. 174 / John Ella.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476678757

1476678758

OCLC:

1140381710