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  • Theorising the Contemporary Zombie

    Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures

    Edited by Conor Heffernan, Scott Eric Hamilton ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved laws, issues within higher education, and even the structure of human societies. Despite the surge of interest in the zombie as a critical ... Read more

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  • Zombies in Western Culture

    A Twenty-First Century Crisis

    by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic ...
    Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Zombie Culture

    Autopsies of the Living Dead

    Edited by Shawn McIntosh, Marc Leverette ...
    Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxieties, and social issues ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Zombies in the Academy

    Living Death in Higher Education

    by Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker, Christopher Moore ...
    Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

    by Stephen Watt, Dan Hassler-Forest, Erik Bohman, Stephen Shapiro, Jack Raglin, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Andrea Ruthven, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, John Gibson, Jonathan P. Eburne, Stephen Schneider, Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

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  • Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels

    A Critical Approach

    by Julia Round ...
    This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint.Part One offers an historical approach to British and American ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Zombie Theory

    A Reader

    Edited by Sarah Juliet Lauro ...
    Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Theories of International Politics and Zombies

    Apocalypse Edition

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasionWhat would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner’s groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Zombies

    by Jennifer Rutherford ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Not so long ago zombies rarely shuffled out of B-grade horror movies and cult comic books, but today they are everywhere. Zombies are proliferating, demonstrating an extraordinary capacity to transport fluidly from genre to genre, from the apocalyptic future to the already survived past, and in and out of fictional form.Today they can be found in just about any genre or discourse and as they move ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Body Studies: The Basics

    by Niall Richardson, Adam Locks ...
    Series series The Basics
    Consideration of the body as a subject for study has increased in recent years with new technologies, forms of modification, debates about obesity and issues of age being brought into focus by the media. Drawing on contemporary culture, Body Studies: The Basics introduces readers to the key concerns and debates surrounding the study of the sociological body, cutting across disciplines to cover ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • "We're All Infected"

    Essays on AMC's The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human

    Edited by Dawn Keetley ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13 original scholarly essays on AMC's The Walking Dead. The essays in the first section address the pervasive bloodletting of the series: What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence? Essays explore violence committed in self-defense, racist violence, mass lawlessness, the violence of law enforcement, the violence of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD