Better off dead : the evolution of the zombie as post-human /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- "They are not men ... they are dead bodies": from cannibal to zombie and back again / Chera Kee
- "We are the mirror of your fears": Haitian identity and zombification / Franck Degoul (translated by Elisabeth M. Lore)
- Undead radio: zombies and the living dead on 1930s and 1940s radio drama / Richard Hand
- The zombie as other: mortality and the monstrous in the post-nuclear age / Kevin Boon
- A dead new world: Richard Matheson and the modern zombie / Deborah Christie
- Nuclear death and radical hope in Dawn of the dead and On the beach / Nick Muntean
- Lucio Fulci and the decaying definition of zombie narratives / Steven Zani and Kevin Meaux
- Imitations of life: zombies and the suburban Gothic / Bernice Murphy
- All dark inside: dehumanization and zombification in postmodern cinema / Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
- Slacker bites back: Shaun of the dead finds new life for deadbeats / Lynn Pifer
- Zombie movies and the "millennial generation" / Peter Dendle
- "Off the page and into your brains!": new millennium zombies and the scourge of hopeful apocalypses / Margo Collins and Elson Bond
- Playing dead: zombies invade performance art, and your neighborhood / Sarah Juliet Lauro.