Dahlia Schweitzer

Going Viral

Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organisations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. Dahlia Schweitzer identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593142
• ISBN-10: 081359314X
• Artikelnr.: 50312588

Autorenporträt

Schweitzer, Dahlia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 The Outbreak Narrative
2 The Globalization Outbreak
3 The Terrorism Outbreak
4 The Post-Apocalypse
Outbreak
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index