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Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means /
'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 cutti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.