Generation zombie : essays on the living dead in modern culture /
edited by Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz.
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
- viii, 259 p. : 26 cm.
- Contributions to Zombie Studies .
Inclou índex.
Generation Z, the age of apocalypse / Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz -- Zombies as internal fear or threat / Kim Paffenroth -- White Zombie and the Creole: William Seabrook's 'The magic island' and American imperialism in Haiti / Gyllian Phillips -- The origin of the zombie in American radio and film: B-Horror, U.S. empire, and the politics of disavowal / Chris Vials -- The eco-zombie: environmental critique in zombie fiction / Sarah Juliet Lauro -- Lost bodies/lost souls: 'Night of the living dead' and 'Deathdream' as Vietnam narrative / Karen Randell -- Shambling towards Mount Improbable to be born: American evolutionary anxiety and the hopeful monsters of Matheson's 'I am legend' and Romero's 'Dead' films / Sean Moreland -- Ztopia: lessons in post-vital politics in George Romero's zombie films / Tyson E. Lewis -- Soft murders: motion pictures and living death in 'Diary of the dead' / Randy Laist -- Mass psychology and the analysis of the zombie: from suggestion to contagion / Phillip Mahoney -- Gray is the new black: race, class, and zombies / Aalya Ahmad -- Cyberpunk and the living dead / Andrea Austin -- The end begins: John Wyndham's 'Zombie cozy' / Terry Harpold -- Zombies in a "deep, dark ocean of history": Danny Boyle's 'Infected' and John Wyndham's 'Triffids' as metaphors of postwar Britain / Nicole LaRose -- Dead and live life: zombies, queers, and online sociality / Shaka McGlotten -- The E-dead: zombies in the digital age / Brendan Riley -- A brain is a terrible thing to waste: Isolation U. and the campus zombie / Brian Greenspan -- Rhetoric goes boom(er): agency, networks, and zombies at play / Scott Reed -- The national strategy for zombie containment: myth meets activism in post-9/11 America / Christopher Zealand.
"These sixteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had on late modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
Contingut en anglès.
9780786461400
2011017045
015809807 Uk
Zombis
ZOMBIS
GR581 / .G46 2011
398.21
80
Inclou índex.
Generation Z, the age of apocalypse / Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz -- Zombies as internal fear or threat / Kim Paffenroth -- White Zombie and the Creole: William Seabrook's 'The magic island' and American imperialism in Haiti / Gyllian Phillips -- The origin of the zombie in American radio and film: B-Horror, U.S. empire, and the politics of disavowal / Chris Vials -- The eco-zombie: environmental critique in zombie fiction / Sarah Juliet Lauro -- Lost bodies/lost souls: 'Night of the living dead' and 'Deathdream' as Vietnam narrative / Karen Randell -- Shambling towards Mount Improbable to be born: American evolutionary anxiety and the hopeful monsters of Matheson's 'I am legend' and Romero's 'Dead' films / Sean Moreland -- Ztopia: lessons in post-vital politics in George Romero's zombie films / Tyson E. Lewis -- Soft murders: motion pictures and living death in 'Diary of the dead' / Randy Laist -- Mass psychology and the analysis of the zombie: from suggestion to contagion / Phillip Mahoney -- Gray is the new black: race, class, and zombies / Aalya Ahmad -- Cyberpunk and the living dead / Andrea Austin -- The end begins: John Wyndham's 'Zombie cozy' / Terry Harpold -- Zombies in a "deep, dark ocean of history": Danny Boyle's 'Infected' and John Wyndham's 'Triffids' as metaphors of postwar Britain / Nicole LaRose -- Dead and live life: zombies, queers, and online sociality / Shaka McGlotten -- The E-dead: zombies in the digital age / Brendan Riley -- A brain is a terrible thing to waste: Isolation U. and the campus zombie / Brian Greenspan -- Rhetoric goes boom(er): agency, networks, and zombies at play / Scott Reed -- The national strategy for zombie containment: myth meets activism in post-9/11 America / Christopher Zealand.
"These sixteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had on late modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
Contingut en anglès.
9780786461400
2011017045
015809807 Uk
Zombis
ZOMBIS
GR581 / .G46 2011
398.21
80