Seeing the Apocalypse (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Bird Box
Redaktion: Grafius, Brandon R.; Stevenson, Gregory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural touchstone, emerging as a staple in the genre of contemporary horror. The essays in this collection offer an interdisciplinary approach to Bird Box, one that draws on the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and disability studies. The contributors examine how Bird Box provokes questions about a range of issues including the human body and its existence in the world, the ethical obligations that shape community, and the anxieties arising from technological development. Taken together, the essays of this volume show how a critical examination of Bird Box offers readers a guide for thinking through human experience in our own troubled, apocalyptic times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611464771
• Artikelnr.: 74397008

Autorenporträt

Brandon R. Grafiusis associate professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit. Gregory Stevenson is professor of New Testament at Rochester University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Body's Apocalyptic Vulnerability
Brandon Grafius and Gregory Stevenson
1 Bird Box and the Imperative of Sight
Ken Junior Lipenga
2 Feeling the (Post)Apocalypse: The Affective Dimensions of Bird Box
Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
3 The Blind Leading the Blindfolded: Representing Disability in
Contemporary Horror Films
Rebecca L. Willoughby
4 Making the End of the World Great Again: Birdbox, Borders, and the
Refugee Crisis
Leland Merritt
5 Mother, Monster Within/Monster, Mother Without: Bird Box and Maternal
Fear
Amy Hagenrater-Gooding
6 Bird Box, WR Bion, and the Sublime
Andrew Slade
7 "It's Too Bad We're Not Horses": The Animal as Witness in Bird Box
Dragoslav Momcilovic
8 The Horror of Smartphones and Voice Assistants: Technophobia and
Disability in Bird Box and A Quiet Place
Paul Muhlhauser and Marya Kuratova
9 Consumed by Memes: How Bird Box Reflects the Current Acceptance and
Anxiety Toward Internet-Distributed Film and Television
Heidi Ippolito