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  title info:
    title: Queering the Family in The Walking Dead
  name:
    name part: Ziegler, John R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 123 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book traces how The Walking Dead franchise narratively, visually, and rhetorically represents transgressions against heteronormativity and the nuclear family. The introduction argues that The Walking Dead reflects cultural anxiety over threats to the family. Chapter 1 examines the destructive competition created by heteronormativity, such as the conflict between Rick and Shane. Chapter 2 focuses on the actual or attempted participation of characters such as Carol and Negan in queer relationships. Chapter 3 interprets zombies as queer antagonists to heteronormativity, while Chapter 4 explores the incorporation of zombies into the lives of characters such as the Governor and the Whisperers. The conclusion asserts that The Walking Dead presents both queer alternatives to and damaging contradictions within the traditional heterosexual family model, helping to question this model and to consider the struggle of queer American families. Overall, this study holds special interest for students and scholars of queerness, zombies, and the family.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Living Families -- 2. That Is My Wife: Futurism and Patriarchal Competition -- 3. Insane Proposals: Beyond Monogamy as Beyond Rationality -- Part II Living/Dead Families -- 4. What Happens in the Barn Stays in the Barn: Families and Zombies as Sinthomosexuals -- 5. Out of the Barn: Alternative Families and the Undead -- 6. Conclusion: A Terminus.
  note: by John R. Ziegler.
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender
  subject:
    topic: United States-Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation Studies
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  subject:
    topic: American Culture
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  classification: HM621-656
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319997988
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99798-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 181109
    record change date: 20191022171502.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-99798-8