Open AccessPerformances culturais: a invasão zumbi, a morte do sujeito e outras desorientações
Author(s) -
Sainy Coelho Borges Veloso
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
visualidades
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-6784
pISSN - 1679-6748
DOI - 10.5216/vis.v11i1.28191
Subject(s) - zombie , comics , theme (computing) , drama , sociology , popular culture , media studies , set (abstract data type) , art , aesthetics , literature , computer science , world wide web , programming language
The article considers how contemporary cultural performances indicial, the worldwide proliferation of fictional theme of the zombie apocalypse, through comic books, board games, movies, games, television serials, posters, rallies. Since then, reflects the theme and looks at this set of products and actions, limited the issue: the current crisis is a crisis of guidance within a world not interpretable, as demonstrates the zombie invasion? To this end, rests on concepts of cultural performances delimiters (GOFFMAN, 2011); social drama (TURNER, 1974); culture (GEERTZ, 1989); and social crisis (JAMESON, 1997; SENNETT, 1998)