From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds
in fantastic genres offer us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This …

Abstract The Supreme Court overturned Plessy in 1954. However, we argue that the logic of
Plessy is still alive and well today. Through a qualitative critical policy analysis of Plessy v …

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse.
Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted …

The article explores the character Glenn Rhee in the US horror drama television series" The
Walking Dead" as representation of heroic vision of Asian-American masculinity. Topics …

Despite axiomatic industry and academic discourses of The Walking Dead's (2010–) status
as quality TV—linked to its graphic visuals and compelling story lines—strong counterclaims …

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie
apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world …

This article argues that The Walking Dead is a post-Western, a genre that extracts classical
Hollywood Western themes and iconography, and resituates them in a dystopian …

" As the Western began to flourish in literature, it also began to appear in illustrations and
early comic strips of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William Grady charts the history …

Through the theoretical lens of cultural posthumanism, this essay offers a reading of writer
Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics series (2003 ongoing). By referring to specific …

For some decades now, late capitalist deindustrialization, together with various social
movements that together constitute what Andreas Huyssen has termed a “postmodernism of …