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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fojas has done it again. With her trademark elegance of prose and sharp cutting cultural critique she slices through those thick layers of capitalist ideology that wrap all variety of popular cultural entertainment. From blue-ice meth to the zombie invasions, Fojas scrapes to the bone just how pop culture speaks to and against very real, everyday material concerns of twenty-first century trans-Pacific borderland denizens. Extraordinary! Exquisite! Edifying!"--Frederick Luis Aldama, author of
The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez"The range of this book is astonishing and Fojas does justice to complex theoretical concepts by showing how they help us understand the primary texts while not dumbing down the theory."--David Schmid, author of
Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture"Powerful and inventive, offering a new way to think about zombie media as critiques of debt that are themselves too often unable to think their way of the global orders of racial capitalism against which they so anxiously rage." --
American Quarterly"Essential."--
PopMatters"Camilla Fojas's
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture is a detailed and timely investigation of some of the most popular media of the past decade in the context of the global economic downturn."--
Journal of Asian American Studies"
Zombies, Migrants and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture by Camilla Fojas is such as an academic work, bringing together theories and topics from many different disciplines (sociology, economics, cultural studies, philosophy) in a very casual--yet impressively coherent--way." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"An exciting book, quite probably Fojas's most important work to date. It is timely, edgy, well-researched, impassioned. In it, Fojas analyzes journalism, memoirs, literature, photography, art, film, TV, music, economics, history, all in relation to 'popular culture.' . . . She adroitly draws on Greek myths, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Barthes, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Foucault, and others in her contemplation of specific artistic and mass media exemplars."--Christine Holmlund, editor of
The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
