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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Walking Dead"”.
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Violence, Paratexts, and Fandoms: The Walking Dead as a Societal Mirror
… textual analysis of fan discourse surrounding the season seven premiere of The Walking Dead “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” that aired on AMC on October 23rd, 2016. Focusing on paratexts, fandoms, and the violence/horror genre as the theoretical framework, the project highlights fans role …
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
… description of constitutive rhetoric, this thesis is concerned what the popular zombie apocalypse television series The Walking Dead (TWD) has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between survivor characters …
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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead
<p>Humanity has become increasingly aware of the Anthropocene and the impact of a worldview based on prioritizing human progress above all else. We’ve always used stories to navigate and negotiate the world in which we live. We have also continually developed new and different ways of telling those …
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EATING AWAY AT PERSONAL PREJUDICE: EXAMINING ASSIMILATION OF BLACKS AND ASIANS USING CHARACTERS FROM AMC'S THE WALKING DEAD
… such as perspective taking, can account for the reductions in prejudice following parasocial interactions. The current study provides the first test of a cognitive factor (i.e., assimilation) that was expected to function in the same way. Specifically, it was expected that following the …
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Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
This study will explore the rise of horror drama on US television, investigating the significance of this trend of horror programming to both the US television industry and the understanding and acceptability of the horror genre as a whole. The first section will account for this increase in horror …
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A Discrete Density-Dependent Model of the Solanum Virus
… This paper will develop a unique model for the spread of the <em>The Walking Dead</em> zombie virus throughout the contiguous United States. Frequency dependent and density dependent transmission will be discussed, and density dependent transmission will be shown to be the appropriate choice …
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“The Day Everything Became Nothing”: Finding Meaning in the Postapocalyptic
… are three texts: Cormac McCarthy’s novel, <em>The Road</em>; Douglas Coupland’s novel, <em>Girlfriend in a Coma</em>; and Robert Kirkman’s ongoing serialized comic book, <em>The Walking Dead</em>. After a discussion of apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fictions and their ubiquity and popularity …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
This thesis explores the zombie’s rise to prominence in popular culture, with a focus on its development within the comics medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
This project explores the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. …
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The Politics of Contagion
… history leaving death and destruction in their wake. Often sensationalized in movies and shows such as Contagion and The Walking Dead, contagion events are life-altering events filled with gory symptoms and elevated mortality rates. The dangers of contagion events prompted governments to …