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Author Vervaeke, John, author.

Title Zombies in Western culture : a twenty-first century crisis / John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, [2017]
2017

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Description 1 online resource (106 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-90) and index.
Contents 1. A new Zeitgeist -- 2. A transition in metaphors: a brief history of monster Zeitgeists -- 3. The four symbols of the zombie metaphor -- 4. A worldview in crisis: the domicide of apocalypse -- 5. The four horsemen of the zombie apocalypse: converging evidence for a crisis in meaning -- 6. An introduction to the genealogy of the meaning crisis -- 7. Conclusion.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Zombies -- Psychological aspects.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Displacement (Psychology)
Popular culture -- Psychological aspects.
Zombies -- Social aspects.
Zombies in popular culture.
Zombies in motion pictures.
Zombies in literature.
Society in literature.
Civilization, Modern.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Mastropietro, Christopher, author.
Miscevic, Filip, author.
Other Form: Print version: Vervaeke, John. Zombies in Western culture : a twenty-first century crisis. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, c2017 106 pages 9781783743292 (DLC) 2018438315
ISBN 9781783743292
9781783743308 (e-book)

 
    
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