Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means /
Zombies are everywhere these days. We are consuming zombies as much as they are said to be consuming us in mediated apocalyptic scenarios on popular television shows, video game franchises and movies. The "zombie industry" generates billions a year through media texts and other cultural ma...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: thinking dead: our obsession with the undead and its implications / Murali Balaji
- Zombies 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.