Better off Dead The Evolution of the Zombie As Post-Human

Name: Better off Dead The Evolution of the Zombie As Post-Human
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ISBN: 9780823234479

ISBN-10: 0823234479

ISBN-13: 9780823234479

Edition: 2011

Authors: Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro

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The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on deep analytical engagement with diverse kinds of texts, Better Off Dead addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found while providing the reader with a classic overview of the zombie's folkloric and cinematic history.What has the zombie metaphor meant in the past? Why does it continue to be so prevalent in our culture? Where others have looked at the zombie as an allegory for humanity's inner machinations or claimed the zombie as capitalist…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



And the Dead Shall Rise Part introduction




"They are not men ... they are dead bodies": From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again




"We are the mirror of your fears": Haitian Identity and Zombification




Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama




The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age



And the Dead Shall Walk Part introduction




A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie




Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach




Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives




Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic




All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema



And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth Part introduction




Slacker Bites Back: Sbaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats




Zombie Movies and the "Millennial Generation"




"Off the page and into your brains!": New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses




Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art and Your Neighborhood



Afterword: Zombie (R)evolution



Notes


Selected Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index