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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kyle william bishop”
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  • American Zombie Gothic

    The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture

    by Kyle William Bishop ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Anthropocene and the Undead

    Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

    by Kyle William Bishop, Mikaela Bobiy, Aaron Bradshaw, Nils Bubandt, Daisy Butcher, Elana Gomel, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Sarah Lewison, Lars Schmeink, Conrad Scott, Gheorghe Williams, Andrew J. Wilson, Kristopher Woofter, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Steffen Hantke, Johan Höglund ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture

    The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century

    by Kyle William Bishop ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Written Dead

    Essays on the Literary Zombie

    Edited by Kyle William Bishop, Angela Tenga ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    From Victor Halperin's White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero's landmark Night of the Living Dead (1968) and AMC's hugely successful The Walking Dead (2010-), zombie mythology has become an integral part of popular culture. In a reversal of the typical pattern of adaptation, the zombie developed onscreen before appearing in short stories and comic books during the 20th century, and more recently ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems: The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death...

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
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    Confessions of a Reality Show Villain

    by Courtney Robertson, Deb Baer ...
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  • Downton Abbey Script Book Season 2

    The Complete Scripts

    by Julian Fellowes ...
    The full scripts of award-winning Downton Abbey , Season Two, including previously unseen commentary from Julian FellowesOpening in 1916, as the First World War rages across Europe, Season Two is the next dramatic installment of the much-loved, award-winning drama. The Crawley family and their servants play their parts on the front line and back at home as their lives are intensified by the ... Read more

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  • The Road to the Dark Tower

    Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

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  • Creepy Stories and Tales Around the World

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    This collection of scary stories and tales from around the world is perfect for Halloween. Each is reflective of what "scary" means depending on the culture. There could be creatures unknown to other countries but is popular to one. Open your mind to the unknown. Grab a copy and read these stories. ... Read more

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