Thinking dead what the zombie apocalypse means / edited by Murali Balaji.

Other author Balaji, Murali, 1979-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Descriptionxviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes ibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013022847
ISBN9780739183823 (cloth)
ISBN0739183826 (hardcover)

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