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Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural touchstone, emerging as a staple in the genre of contemporary horror. The essays in this collection offer an interdisciplinary approach to Bird Box, one that draws on the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and disability studies. The contributors examine how Bird Box provokes questions about a range of issues including the human body and its existence in the world, the ethical obligations that shape community, and the anxieties arising from technological development. Taken together, the essays of this volume show how a critical examination of Bird Box offers readers a guide for thinking through human experience in our own troubled, apocalyptic times.
Contents
Introduction: The Body's Apocalyptic Vulnerability
Brandon Grafius and Gregory Stevenson
1Bird Box and the Imperative of Sight
Ken Junior Lipenga
2Feeling the (Post)Apocalypse: The Affective Dimensions of Bird Box
Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
3The Blind Leading the Blindfolded: Representing Disability in Contemporary Horror Films
Rebecca L. Willoughby
4Making the End of the World Great Again: Birdbox, Borders, and the Refugee Crisis
Leland Merritt
5Mother, Monster Within/Monster, Mother Without: Bird Box and Maternal Fear
Amy Hagenrater-Gooding
6Bird Box, WR Bion, and the Sublime
Andrew Slade
7"It's Too Bad We're Not Horses": The Animal as Witness in Bird Box
Dragoslav Momcilovic
8The Horror of Smartphones and Voice Assistants: Technophobia and Disability in Bird Box and A Quiet Place
Paul Muhlhauser and Marya Kuratova
9Consumed by Memes: How Bird Box Reflects the Current Acceptance and Anxiety Toward Internet-Distributed Film and Television
Heidi Ippolito
