Article
Fighting a War You've Already Lost: Zombies and Zombis in Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse
Science Fiction Film and Television
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
32 p.
Publication Date
10-1-2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Original Item ID
doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2011.12
Disciplines
Abstract
This article explores the use of zombie imagery in two sf narratives created by Joss Whedon: Firefly (US 2002–3), Serenity (US 2005) and Dollhouse (US 2009–10). The translation of the zombie from its traditional horror-movie context to the far-future space opera of Firefly/Serenity and the near-future cyberpunk of Dollhouse reveals the zombie's allegorisation of the consequences of biopolitical governmentality and neoliberal capitalism. In both series zombies function as a figure for both the dehumanisation caused by state and market forces and the possibility of Utopian resistance to these forces.
Citation Information
Gerry Canavan. "Fighting a War You've Already Lost: Zombies and Zombis in Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse" Science Fiction Film and Television (2011) ISSN: 1754-3770 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gerry-canavan/80/
Accepted version. Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2011): 173-204. DOI. © 2011 Liverpool University Press. Used with permission.