Religion and the Representative Anecdote: Replacement and Revenge in AMC's "The Walking Dead"
The current study examines how the horror-based AMC television series The Walking Dead portrays religion in terms of a reframing of the role, if any, of faith in a higher power, and the portrayal of the faithful. The religious-themed discourse of this highly successful story about survivors of a zom...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2016]
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Journal of media and religion
Jahr: 2016, Band: 15, Heft: 3, Seiten: 123-135 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The current study examines how the horror-based AMC television series The Walking Dead portrays religion in terms of a reframing of the role, if any, of faith in a higher power, and the portrayal of the faithful. The religious-themed discourse of this highly successful story about survivors of a zombie apocalypse as presented through dialogic and visual imagery serves as the text analyzed here; specifically, related episodes set in churches at two separate points in the series that combine to offer a metaphor of "structure" used to disassemble and reconstruct the role of religion. These episodes interlace religious themes to develop an overarching message that forms a representative anecdote of replacement in which the notion of "faith" becomes redefined. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-8415 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of media and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2016.1209390 |