ISBN:
9780739183823
,
0739183826
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 248 pages
,
Kt.
,
24 cm
DDC:
398.21
Keywords:
Zombies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Zombie
;
Massenkultur
Note:
Includes ibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: thinking dead: our obsession with the undead and its implications
,
The social dead: how our zombie baggage threatens to drag us into the crypts of our past
,
"Fight the dead, fear the living": zombie apocalypse or libertarian paradise?
,
Simulating zombies in popular culture and media
,
The zombie apocalypse and social, technological and psychological space. Return to darkness: representations of Africa in A resident evil 5
,
Same as it ever was: savior narratives and the logics of survival in The walking dead
,
The zombie monster's evolution to empty undead signifier
,
Gothic monster and Chinese cultural identity: analysis of The note of ghoul
,
Zombies and the modern American family: surviving the destruction of traditional society in Zombieland
,
Leave it all behind: the post-apocalyptical renunciation of technology in The walking dead
,
Space junk and the second event: the cosmic meaning of the zombie apocalypse
,
Eating the undead: consumption and cultural industries. The necropolitics of the apocalypse: queer zombies in the cinema of Bruce Labruce
,
Xxxombies: economies of desire and disgust
,
Teen movies and summit entertainment's construction of Warm bodies
,
Eating the dead: AMC's use of synergy to cultivate zombie consumption
