Thinking Dead

What the Zombie Apocalypse Means
Herausgeber: Balaji, Murali

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Produktbeschreibung

Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means, edited by Murali Balaji, examines various aspects of the zombie apocalypse scenario from the perspective of a variety of theoretical frameworks. Essays in the collection shed light on why we are so obsessed with the undead. This is a cutting-edge volume for the growing scholarship on media representations of zombies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781498532402
• ISBN-10: 1498532403
• Artikelnr.: 44473660

Autorenporträt

Murali Balaji is assistant professor of media studies and production at Temple University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction - Thinking Dead: Our obsession with the Undead and Its
Implications
Murali Balaji, Ph.D
Part I: Zombies as the Other and Ourselves
Chapter 1: Perfect Strangers: The Zombie Imaginary and the Logic of
Representation
Gordon Coonfield, Ph.D
Chapter 2: The Social Dead: How Our Zombie Baggage Threatens to Drag Us
into the Crypts of Our Past
Angela Cirucci
Chapter 3: "Fight the Dead, Fear The Living": Zombie Apocalypse or
Libertarian Paradise?
Jennifer M. Proffitt, Ph.D
Rich Templin, Ph.D
Chapter 4: Simulating Zombies in Popular Culture and Media
Patrick Hamilton, Ph.D
Part II: The Zombie Apocalypse and Social, Technological and Psychological
Space
Chapter 5: Return to Darkness: Representations of Africa in Resident Evil 5
Hanli Geyser
Chapter 6: Same as it ever was: Savior Narratives and the Logics of
Survival in The Walking Dead
Martina Baldwin
Mark McCarthy
Chapter 7: The Zombie Monster's Evolution to Empty Undead Signifier
Ryan Lizardi, Ph.D
Chapter 8: Gothic Monster and Chinese Cultural Identity: Analysis of The
Note of Ghoul
Meijiadai Bai
Chapter 9: Zombies and the Modern American Family: Surviving the
Destruction of Traditional Society in Zombieland
Cassie Ozog
Chapter 10: Leave it all Behind: The post-Apocalyptical Renunciation of
Technology in the Walking Dead
Alicia Kozma
Chapter 11: Space Junk and the Second Event: The Cosmic Meaning of the
Zombie Apocalypse
Barry Vacker, Ph.D
Part III: Eating the Undead: Consumption and Cultural Industries
Chapter 12: The Necropolitics of the Apocalypse: Queer Zombies in the
Cinema of Bruce LaBruce
Arnau Roig
Chapter 13: XXXombies: Economies of Desire and Disgust
Steve Jones, Ph.D
Chapter 14: Teen Movies and Summit Entertainment's Construction of Warm
Bodies
Cate Buckley
Chapter 15: Eating the Dead: AMC's use of Synergy to Cultivate Zombie
Consumption
Murali Balaji, Ph.D