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Title: | Framing Bio-emergencies in Fiction: The Cases of 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead' |
Author: | Cantó-Milà, Natàlia Gonzàlez Balletbò, Isaac |
Citation: | Cantó Milà, N. & González Balletbó, I. (2019). Framing Bio-emergencies in Fiction: The Cases of 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead'. Sociological Research Online, 24(1), 111-125. doi: 10.1177/1360780419827969 |
Abstract: | This article analyses the first seasons of two interconnected AMC series, 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead'. Our analysis focuses on how these shows frame the emergence of a bio-risk, how the leading characters deal with the experience of bio-risks, and how they develop (or fail at developing) strategies to overcome, or, if this renders impossible, to tame such bio-risk. We have used a Grounded Theory approach to analyse the data, frame our analysis, and create a theoretical understanding of the ways these shows present bio-risks, and of the ways they depict the fictional experience of living a bio-emergency, without any official, institutional plan regarding to how to deal with it. |
Keywords: | bio-emergency Fear the Walking Dead fiction imaginaries of risk risk state of exception The Walking Dead TV-series |
DOI: | 10.1177/1360780419827969 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2019 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles Articles cientÍfics |
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