Embodying contagion the viropolitics of horror and desire in contemporary discourse
Embodying the fantasies and realities of contagion / Megan De Bruin-Molé and Sara Polak -- Part I: Epidemic fantasies in reality. The krokodil drug menace, cross-genre body horror, and the zombie apocalypse / Peter Burger -- Preparedness 101: zombie pandemic and the Ebola scare. How the CDC's...
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University of Wales Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Horror studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Embodying the fantasies and realities of contagion / Megan De Bruin-Molé and Sara Polak -- Part I: Epidemic fantasies in reality. The krokodil drug menace, cross-genre body horror, and the zombie apocalypse / Peter Burger -- Preparedness 101: zombie pandemic and the Ebola scare. How the CDC's use of zombie pop culture helped fan a nationalist outbreak narrative / Sara Polak - The Zika virus, Ebola contagion narratives, and US obsessions with securitizing neglected infectious diseases / Madison A. Krall, Marouf Hasian Jr and Yvonne Karyn Clark -- An affectionate epidemic : how disability goes viral on social media / Angela M. Smith -- 'Fatties cause global warming' : the strange entanglement of obesity and climate change / Francis Ray White -- Part II: Epidemic realities in fantasy. 'Time is of the essence, doctor': twenty-first century (post-)apocalyptic fiction, white fatherhood, and anti-intellectual tendencies in FX's The strain / Sandra Becker -- Killable hordes, chronic others, and 'mindful' consumers : rehabilitating the zombie in twenty-first-century popular culture / Megan de Bruiun-Molé -- Networks, desire, and risk management in gay contagion fiction / Mica Hilson - 'This long disease, my life' : AIDS activism and contagious bodies in Larry Kramer's The normal heart and The destiny of me / Astrid Haas -- The epidemic of history : contagion of the past in the era of the never-ending present / Elana Gomel -- 'Contagion contagion' : viral metaphors, lockdown and suffering economies in the COVID-19 pandemic / Sandra Becker. |
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| Beschreibung: | Open access version available Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 301 Seiten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781786836908 978-1-78683-690-8 |