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Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics

Autor John Edgar Browning, David Castillo, David Schmid, David A. Reilly
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2015
Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137575241
ISBN-10: 1137575247
Pagini: 129
Ilustrații: X, 129 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2090
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Our Zombies, Our Bodies; David R. Castillo and John Edgar Browning
1. Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth Through to the Postmillennium; John Edgar Browning
2. Zombie Masses: Monsters for the Age of Global Capitalism; David R. Castillo
3. The Coming Apocalypses of Zombies and Globalization; David A. Reilly
4. The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age; David Schmid
Afterword: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?; William Egginton






Notă biografică

David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

David Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
 
David A. Reilly is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Niagara University, USA.
 
John Edgar Browning is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

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Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.

Caracteristici

Examines the portrayal of zombies across a variety of disciplines and depictions from multiple cultures Analyzes the increasingly growing prevalence of zombies within our culture and the reasons for it Introduces a novel historical materialist approach to analyze the zombie phenomenon