Zombies, Migrants, and Queers
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2008 economic crisis and popular culture
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analysis of Breaking Bad
analysis of Orange Is the New Black
analysis of The Walking Dead
austerity
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capitalism
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crisis
debt
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Detroit
disaster
empire
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eugenics
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Great Recession
Great Recession and popular culture
incarceration
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lesbian
migrant
neoliberalism
New Gilded Age
New Gilded Age and popular culture
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plutocrat
political analysis of pop culture
pop culture in trans-Pacific
popular culture
precariat
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prisons
privileging whiteness in pop culture
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queer
race
racial capitalism
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trans
U.S.-Mexico border
urban death
white supremacy
whiteness
whiteness in pop culture
zombies
Product details
- ISBN 9780252040924
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 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.
