| Description |
xviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking dead: our obsession with the undead and its implications / Murali Balaji -- Zombies as the other and ourselves : Perfect strangers: the zombie imaginary and the logic of representation / Gordon Coonfield -- The social dead: how our zombie baggage threatens to drag us into the crypts of our past / Angela M. Cirucci -- "Fight the dead, fear the living": zombie apocalypse or libertarian paradise? / Jennifer M. Proffitt, Rich Templin -- Simulating the zombie apocalypse in popular culture and media / Patrick L. Hamilton -- The zombie apocalypse and social, technological and psychological space : Return to darkness: representations of Africa in Resident evil 5 / Hanli Geyser -- Same as it ever was: savior narratives and the logics of survival in The Walking Dead / Martina Baldwin, Mark McCarthy -- The zombie media monster's evolution to empty undead signifier / Ryan Lizardi -- Gothic monster and Chinese cultural identity: analysis of The note of Ghoul / Meijiadai Bai -- Zombies and the modern American family: surviving the destruction of traditional society in Zombieland (2009) / Cassie Ozog -- Leave it all behind: the post-apocalyptical renunciation of technology in The Walking Dead / Alicia Kozma -- Space junk and the second event: the cosmic meaning of the zombie apocalypse / Barry Vacker -- Eating the undead: consumption and cultural industries : The necropolitics of the apocalypse: queer zombies in the cinema of Bruce LaBruce / Arnau Roig Mora -- Xxxombies: economies of desire and disgust / Steve Jones -- The heart-throb zombie: teen movies and Summit Entertainment's construction of Warm Bodies / Catherine Buckley -- Eating the dead: AMC's use of synergy to cultivate zombie consumption / Murali Balaji. |
| Subject |
Zombies.
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Zombies. (OCoLC)fst01184595
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| Added Author |
Balaji, Murali, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780739183823 (cloth) |
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0739183826 (hardcover) |
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9780739183830 (electronic) |
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0739183834 (electronic) |
| Standard No. |
40022924472 |
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