Queering the Family in The Walking Dead

• Main Author: Ziegler, John R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Motion pictures.; Culture.; Gender.; United States-Study and teaching.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Popular Culture .; Adaptation Studies.; Culture and Gender.; American Culture.; Contemporary Literature.

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 c...

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.