Zombies Are Us Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead

Name: Zombies Are Us Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead
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ISBN: 9780786459124

ISBN-10: 0786459123

ISBN-13: 9780786459124

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christopher M. Moreman, Cory James Rushton

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On the surface, the zombie seems the polar opposite of the human--they are the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive. But the zombie is also "us." Although decaying, it looks like us, dresses like us, and sometimes (if rarely) acts like us. In this volume, essays by scholars from a range of disciplines examine the zombie as a thematic presence in literature, film, video games, legal language, and philosophy, exploring topics including zombies and the environment, litigation, the afterlife, capitalism, and the erotic. Through this wide-ranging examination of the zombie phenomenon, the authors seek to discover what the zombie can teach us about being human.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 10/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Christopher Moreman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, California State University, East Bay, USA.



Acknowledgments


Introduction-They're Us: Zombies, Humans/Humans, Zombies




The Zombie in Humanity


Your Zombie and You: Identity, Emotion, and the Undead



Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead



Porn of the Dead: Necrophilia, Feminism, and Gendering the Undead



Modern Zombie Makers: Enacting the Ancient Impulse to Control and Possess Another



"Corporate Zombies" and the Perils of "Zombie Litigation": The Walking Dead in American Judicial Writing




Zombies in the Sacred


The Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the Bible



Religion, Blasphemy, and Tradition in the Films of Lucio Fulci



The Mutated Spirit: The Hollywood Zombie as Psychopomp



Dharma of the Living Dead: A Buddhist Meditation on the Zombie




Zombies into the Future


Digital Dead: Translating the Visceral and Satirical Elements of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead to Videogames



How the Zombie Changed Videogames



Undead Is the New Green: Zombies and Political Ecology



Plans Are Pointless; Staying Alive Is as Good as It Gets: Zombie Sociology and the Politics of Survival



Bibliography


Filmography


Video Games and Discography


About the Contributors


Index