[ecrea] Zombies, Migrants, and Queers - Camilla Fojas

A new publication from University of Illinois Press

Free postage to UK customers

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/zombies-migrants-and-queers

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*Zombies, Migrants, and Queers***

*Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture***

/Camilla Fojas///

"Fojas has done it again. With her trademark elegance of prose and sharp 
cutting cultural critique she slices through those thick layers of 
capitalist ideology that wrap all variety of popular cultural 
entertainment. From blue-ice meth to the zombie invasions, Fojas scrapes 
to the bone just how pop culture speaks to and against very real, 
everyday material concerns of twenty-first century trans-Pacific 
borderland denizens. Extraordinary! Exquisite! Edifying!"—Frederick Luis 
Aldama, author of /The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez/

"The range of this book is astonishing and Fojas does justice to complex 
theoretical concepts by showing how they help us understand the primary 
texts while not dumbing down the theory."—David Schmid, author of 
/Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture/

"An exciting book, quite probably Fojas's most important work to date. 
It is timely, edgy, well-researched, impassioned. In it, Fojas analyzes 
journalism, memoirs, literature, photography, art, film, TV, music, 
economics, history, all in relation to 'popular culture.' . . . She 
adroitly draws on Greek myths, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, 
Lyotard, Barthes, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Foucault, and others 
in her contemplation of specific artistic and mass media 
exemplars."—Christine Holmlund, editor of /The Ultimate Stallone Reader: 
Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur/

The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating 
expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal 
collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal 
and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of 
freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas 
uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and 
trans/queers—vulnerable populations all—to work through the 
contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling 
aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the 
crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the 
violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments 
reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and 
connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also 
examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept 
off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white 
protagonists.

*Camilla Fojas*teaches in media studies and American studies at the 
University of Virginia. Her books include /Border Bandits: Hollywood on 
the Southern Frontier/ and /Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power/.

University of Illinois Press | February 2017| 184pp | 9780252082405 | PB 
| £20.99*

20% discount with this code: SCL17ZMAQ**

*Price subject to change.

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