TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract A lot has been written on zombies lately and on the rather conservative US-American TV Show The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010–) in particular. A lot less has been written on the SyFy-Show Z Nation (2014–), although it is a sophisticated feminist take on the zombie lore. Centring around a group of survivors, who escort a human–zombie–cyborg across the US and Mexico, the show not only undermines the patriarchalism of its archetype, but also raises questions of post-humanism by the means of Donna Haraway or Rosi Braidotti. With the help of media-self-reflexive parody and pastiche, the series comments on its extradiegetic world as much as on its own genre and offers a deconstruction of stereotypical (gendered) tropes and conventions. In the following chapter, I use a selective close reading of the text and its representation politics to demonstrate how a feminist deconstruction of zombie-horror can come into being and how an (academic) distinction between Quality and Trash TV can be just as regressive as productive in this process.
SN  - 978-1-78769-103-2, 978-1-78769-104-9/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78769-103-220191003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-103-220191003
AU  - Dannenberg Nadine
ED  - Steven Gerrard
ED  - Samantha Holland
ED  - Robert Shail
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - ‘Is This a Chick Thing Now?’ The Feminism of Z Nation between Quality and Trash TV
T2  - Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television
T3  - Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 23
EP  - 34
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -