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Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means / ed. by Murali Balaji

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013

XVIII, 248 S. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Introduction: thinking dead: our obsession with the undead and its implications / Murali BalajiZombies 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 Cirucci

"Fight the dead, fear the living": zombie apocalypse or libertarian paradise? / Jennifer M. Proffitt, Rich Templin

Simulating zombies in popular culture and media / Patrick Hamilton

The zombie apocalypse and social, technological and psychological space. Return to darkness: representations of Africa in A 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 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 / 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

Xxxombies: economies of desire and disgust / Steve Jones

Teen movies and summit entertainment's construction of Warm bodies / Cate Buckley

Eating the dead: AMC's use of synergy to cultivate zombie consumption / Murali Balaji.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Onlineausg.: : Thinking dead

978-1-4985-3240-2 (pbk.); 1-4985-3240-3 (pbk.); 978-0-7391-8382-3 ; 0-7391-8382-6

978-0-7391-8383-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 0739183834(electronic) (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

755612590

OCoLC: 869853977     

OCoLC: 846889394 (aus SWB)     

HG 436  | AP 53900      Ähnliche Literatur

GR581

398.21

Basisklassifikation: 71.50 (Kultursoziologie: Allgemeines)

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LOC-SH: Zombies ; Zombies ; Zombies