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Annotated Bibliography and Scholarly SummaryRuizhong LiTopicHeroine Images in TV Series The Walking DeadTerms1.Heroine, portrayal2.Feminist, female, woman, gender, sexual;3.Race4.Weapon5.Disaster6.Zombie7.Popular culture/ modern culture8.Adapt/ television/ comicCitationsGender/ Popular Culture1.Brown, Jeffrey A. Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.Weapon/ Female2.Berglund, Anders. “Why Are Sexually Selected Weapons Almost Absent in Females?” Current Zoology 59, no. 4 (August 2013): 564–68.Disaster/ Women/ Gender3.Dhar Chakrabarti, P. G., and Elaine Pitt Enarson. Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications India Pvt., Ltd, 2009: 1-51.Disaster/ Feminist/ Women4.Enarson, Elaine. “Toward a Feminist Perspective on Women and Disaster.” Women’s Rights Law Reporter 28 (2007): 3.Zombie5.Yuen, Wayne, ed. The Walking Dead and Philosophy: Zombie Apocalypse Now. Chicago: Open Court, 2012: 97-106.Zombie/ Modern Culture6.Boluk, Stephanie, and Wylie Lenz. Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2011.Popular Culture/ Heroine/ Portrayals/ Television7.Jones, Norma, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor, eds. Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield, 2014.Popular Culture/Heroine/ Portrayal8. Bajac-Carter, Maja, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor, eds. Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.Adapting Comic/ Television9.Thompson, Ethan, and Jason Mittell, eds. How To Watch Television. New York: NYU Press, 2013: 373-380.Race/ Gender/ Zombie10.Brooks, Kinitra D. “The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Race and Gender in Contemporary Zombie Texts and Theories.” African American Review 47, no. 4 (2014): 461–75.EntriesBerglund, Anders. “Why Are Sexually Selected Weapons Almost Absent in Females?” Current Zoology 59, no. 4 (August 2013): 564–68.From an Ecology perspective, this article explains how female weapons are used and why sexually selected weapons are almost absent in females. By contrasting the natural selection explanations and sexual selection ones, the author introduces several assumptions on the function and evolvement of female weapons. Citing examples in different species, as well as estimating the costs and benefits of both selections, the author tends to support the natural selection explanation. It indicates that female weapons mainly serve as ornamental function rather than real weapons. Dhar Chakrabarti, P. G., and Elaine Pitt Enarson. Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications India Pvt., Ltd, 2009: 1-51.The part one of this book consists of four chapters on the topic of concepts of gender and role of both men and women in risk reduction. Authors in cluding Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu, Helena Molin Valdés, Prafulla Mishra, and Cheryl L. Anderson are concerned about gender issues in disasters, respectively based on research, study, individual experience and international workshop. The authors admit the existence of gender inequity, pointing out the origin of the phenomenon, and figure out the way to balancing the inequality between men and women.Yuen, Wayne, ed. The Walking Dead and Philosophy: Zombie Apocalypse Now. Chicago: Open Court, 2012: 97-106.The article Women in a Zombie Apocalypse in the book, directly describe several heroine images in The Walking Dead. Men and women are both physically and spiritually different in nature. Comparing the main heroines with each other, author classifies the women into different categories. With the examples listed in compare, the author appeals for reversing the stereotype, weakness of women and emphasizing women’s importance in a community, especially in zombie apocalypse.Thompson, Ethan, and Jason Mittell, eds. How To Watch Television. New York: NYU Press, 2013: 373-380.The article introduces elementary way for television to connecting with other media – adapting. Citing The Walking Dead as typical and exceptional, the author points out that maintaining veteran audience and attracting new readers is a safe way to guarantee the ratings of TV series. On one hand, in order to maintain veteran audience, the TV series is faithful to the comic, adapting within an acceptable range for veteran audience. On the other hand, the author chooses several typical plot adapting to indicate that deviation from the comic represents the insightful arrangement of TV version, though risky.Brooks, Kinitra D. “The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Race and Gender in Contemporary Zombie Texts and Theories.” African American Review 47, no. 4 (2014): 461–75.The essay discusses the phenomenon of an increase in the number of contemporary zombie texts including multifaceted black women, in a world being in charged in white men. The author emphasizes on the survivors of the zombie apocalypse, observing the process of rebuilding the post-apocalypse civilization and pointing out the black woman’s contribution. Employing black feminist theory, the author thoroughly delineates the central black female character, Michonne, in The Walking Dead, and figure out the advantage of weaving black women, multiple intersections of identity, into main narrative. Showing respect to all the lived realities and focusing on gender and race spectrum is a possible direction for writers and producers.SummaryDiverse perspectives on one topic make it complete. All five articles relate to the topic in five different aspects: ecology, gender issue in disaster, zombie apocalypse, popular culture, and race-gender intersection. Interact with each other, combine with each other. The common ground among these articles is as follow:Put forward gender-inequity phenomenon, and analyze the reasons.Put gender issues into specific context, display diversity of female issues.Admit natural weakness and emphasize on recognition equity.And five articles serve as different functions in relating and elaborating the common topic. Why Are Sexually Selected Weapons Almost Absent in Females serves as a metaphor role. From ecological aspect, the article indicates that the natural selection between male and female is unequal. Follow with 4 articles in Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives, it directly displays the real scene when disaster, a wide range of zombie apocalypse, happened, what the females face. Underestimation, prejudice, and vulnerability. It shapes the ordinary female images in real life, simulating the scene in zombie disaster. Next, the real zombie apocalypse turns up. It puts the heroines in zombie rampaging time. Within that context, the article analyzes all the factors accordingly, and depict several heroine images to compare. Comparing with the character of hero, bridging the gap between male and female. Comparing one heroine image with other heroine images, the difference among women shows the interesting growing space of females. Back to the reality, the adapting from comic to TV series also exhibits a feminism tendency. In popular culture, emotion depicting matters, which is the strength of females. In the plot rearrangement, the prolong of stories between Andrea and Amy, two sisters, is an evidence. In the progress adapting to popular taste, the female portion will keep occupying an important place. The last article is considered as, of course, a future expectation of feminism. Combining with race, another heated topic, the author uses a considerable portion of article to delineate the plot and details in a black woman heroine, which exhibits the significance of the gender-race intersecting images. It shows infinite possibilities to explore the feminism with all of these topics and terms above. Combination of any two of these terms shall be a controversial but exciting topic. ................
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