Zombies in contemporary culture : journeys, bodies, pandemics and politics /
"Building on previous zombie studies scholarship, this ghoulish collection examines how the undead reflect and contribute to contemporary social anxieties, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The contributors to this volume advance the theoretical framework of 'zombiism&#...
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Horror studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Theorising zombiism / Linda Flores, Emma Tonkin and Conor Heffernan
- Part I. The zombie journey
- Place, space and the localised apocalypse : a data-led exploration of the zombie novel as a road trip / emma Tonkin
- Fear the walking dead : elitism, privilege and zombie Americana / Scott Hamilton
- The zombie revolution will not be televised : examining the importance of media in George R. Romero's early zombie movies / Robert Curran
- Part II. Dissecting the zombie body
- Decaying dicks and putrid pussies : zombie sex toys and pleasure / Caroline West
- The suburban zombie : exploring posthumanism and transhumanism in Netflix's Santa Clarita diet / En-Chi Chiou
- Incel zombie sex : trophy wives of the damned / Adeline Berry
- The zombie as a metaphor of postmodern malaise in Halley : surviving the zombie pandemic / Violeta Alarcón Zayas
- Hear the dead, bite the living : beyond post-apocalyptic trauma / Catherine Pugh and Nikki Foster-Kruczek
- Abject body of the zombie as a counter-narrative to the pandemic hero / Madeline Becker
- Human individuals versus zombie masses : dystopia or (hyper)individualistic utopia? / Hossein Mohammadzade
- Part III. Zombie politics
- Decomposition and excavation of war memories and massacres in Na Hong-jin's The wailing / Grace Jung
- The symbolic zombification and the capitalist modes of production / Rodrigo Gonsalves
- Race, class and the goal of the dead : marginalised identities in French zombie cinema / Reece Goodall.