Generation Zombie Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture

Name: Generation Zombie Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture
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ISBN: 9780786461400

ISBN-10: 0786461403

ISBN-13: 9780786461400

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz

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Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international politics. These sixteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had on late modernity. Topics covered include representations of zombies in films, the zombie as environmental critique, its role in mass psychology and how issues of race, class and gender are expressed through zombie narratives. Collectively, the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 6/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction: Generation Z, the Age of Apocalypse



Zombies as Internal Fear or Threat



White Zombie and the Creole: William Seabrook's The Magic Island and American Imperialism in Haiti



The Origin of the Zombie in American Radio and Film: B-Horror, U.S. Empire, and the Politics of Disavowal



The Eco-Zombie: Environmental Critique in Zombie Fiction



Lost Bodies/Lost Souls: Night of the Living Dead and Deathdream as Vietnam Narrative



Shambling Towards Mount Improbable to Be Born: American Evolutionary Anxiety and the Hopeful Monsters of Matheson's I Am Legend and Romero's DeadFilms



Ztopia: Lessons in Post-Vital Politics in George Romero's Zombie Films



Soft Murders: Motion Pictures and Living Death in Diary of the Dead



Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Zombie: From Suggestion to Contagion



Gray Is the New Black: Race, Class, and Zombies



Cyberpunk and the Living Dead



The End Begins: John Wyndham's Zombie Cozy



Zombies in a ï¿½Deep, Dark Ocean of Historyï¿½: Danny Boyle's Infected and John Wyndham's Triffids as Metaphors of Postwar Britain



Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality



The E-Dead: Zombies in the Digital Age



A Brain Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Isolation U. and the Campus Zombie



Rhetoric Goes Boom(er): Agency, Networks, and Zombies at Play



The National Strategy for Zombie Containment: Myth Meets Activism in Post-9/11 America



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