Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture | 
pickYou guys, this cover! This book looks at pop culture representations of marginalized figures like zombies, prisoners, and queers in shows and movies like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and World War Z. The author then shows how the marginalized are always in precarious financial circumstances, and it isn't until economic hardship hits the white middle class that people pay attention. #ZOMBIES #coverart #happynewbookdaytome #ReadUP
pickThis was an incredible account of why we love the decayed zombies and how they fit into our while capitalist society. The critical connections that were made gave my intellectual mind a treasure trove of reference and really helped me to look at pop culture post recession in a whole new way. I loved this book and I know you will too! I mean if you like the whole bad ass critical analysis thing. :)
The Netflix series takes liberties with its source material to weave a very different tale, that of an unrepentant and unreformable protagonist whose acculturation to prison life frees her from restrictive and banal forms of normativity while it also, as in Breaking Bad and Weeds, shows how the white protagonist turns deviance into profit. Now we are onto some Orange is the New Black shhiiiittt
"Our obsession with zombies is a passion for heteropatriarchal forms of organization within reimagined racial relations; these storylines reject racism through normative discourses of heterosexuality in the proliferation of heteronormative couples and families as defense units."
Holy crap. Guys. I freaking love this book. I don't care who knows it.
The collapse of the global financial system was taken as a sign of the apocalypse, foretelling the end of everything familiar and known, allegorically conveyed in the zombified end of the world. The protagonist of the popular zombie series, Walking Dead, summarizes his postapocalyptic experience in a single word: “disorienting.”
Capitalism reaches its limit when it no longer serves white supremacy, when whiteness loses its value as capital and needs new forms for survival.
"The Great Recession found its emblem in the zombie apocalypse. Yet unlike the ecological disaster film and its sinkhole kin, the zombie film evokes fears and anxieties about the indebted life and of life in debt as a form of indentured servitude unto death."
Alright guys I'm sorry but get ready for a shit ton of quotes from this book. It says what I have been saying for freaking years. #quotesarecoming
"Thus crisis is evident not as a single crash but in economic fluctuations, each worse than the one that precedes it. And the drama always goes global since “when it comes to financial crises, all the world‘s a stage.”
Oh man! Looks like I am back to my old #nonfiction ways! I love me some pop culture connections to history.
