"I’m not so sure humanity’s worth saving": Zum Zusammenhang von Zombies, Männlichkeit und Kapitalismuskritik in The Walking Dead (2010-) und Z Nation (2014-)

• Autores: Nadine Dannenberg
• Localización: Feministische Studien, ISSN 0723-5186, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2017, 11 págs.
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The article presents a comparative reading of the US-American TV-Shows The Walking Dead (AMC, since 2010) and Z Nation (SyFy, since 2014) with a focus on their respective (gendered) politics of representation. Stemming from queer feminist interventions, as well as from posthumanist positions and Monster Theories, it is argued that an ambivalent conjunction of zombiism and / or humanism with masculinity within the series’ diegetic worlds mirrors contemporary ideals of neoliberal subjectivity, whereby it is negatively-nostalgically re-inscribed in the (narrative-aesthetical) politics of The Walking Dead, but positively questioned in Z Nation.