Better Off Dead : : The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human /

Better Off Dead : : The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human / / ed. by Sarah Juliet Lauro, Deborah Christie.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Bond, Elson,
Boon, Kevin,
Christie, Deborah,
Collins, Margo,
Degoul, Franck,
Dendle, Peter,
Fhlainn, Sorcha Ní,
Hand, Richard,
Kee, Chera,
Lauro, Sarah Juliet,
Meaux, Kevin,
Muntean, Nick,
Murphy, Bernice,
Pifer, Lynn,
Zani, Steven,
HerausgeberIn:
Christie, Deborah,
Lauro, Sarah Juliet,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • And the Dead Shall Rise
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 ‘‘They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!’’: From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again
  • Chapter 2 ‘‘We are the mirror of your fears’’: Haitian Identity and Zombification
  • Chapter 3 Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama
  • Chapter 4 The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age
  • And the Dead Shall Walk
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5 A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie
  • Chapter 6 Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach
  • Chapter 7 Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives
  • Chapter 8 Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic
  • Chapter 9 All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema
  • And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 10 Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats
  • Chapter 11 Zombie Movies and the ‘‘Millennial Generation’’
  • Chapter 12 ‘‘Off the page and into your brains!’’: New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses
  • Chapter 13 Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood
  • Afterword: zombie (r)evolution
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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