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Zombie Theory : A Reader /
"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 g...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Old schools : classic zombies. 1. Contagious allegories : George Romero / Steven Shaviro
- 2. Zombie TV : late-night B movie horror fest / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- 3. Viral cultures : microbes and politics in the Cold War / Priscilla Wald
- 4. Slaves, cannibals, and infected hyper-whites : the race and religion of zombies / Elizabeth McAlister
- 5. Slavoj Žižek, the death drive, and zombies : a theological account / Ola Sigurdson
- Part II: Capitalist monsters. 6. Some kind of virus : the zombie as body and as trope / Jen Webb and Samuel Byrnand
- 7. Ugly beauty : monstrous dreams of utopia / David McNally
- 8. Alien-nation : zombies, immigrants, and Millennial capitalism / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
- 9. Zombies of immaterial labor : the modern monster and the consumption of the self / Lars Bang Larsen
- 10. Abject posthumanism : neoliberalism, biopolitics, and zombies / Sherryl Vint
- Part III: Zombies and other(ed) people. 11. Zombie race / Edward P. Comentale
- 12. Taking back the Night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film / Barry Keith Grant
- 13. Dead and live life : zombies, queers, and online sociality / Shaka McGlotten
- 14. Dead and disabled : the crawling monsters of The walking dead / Anna Mae Duane
- 15. Trouble with zombies : Muselmänner, bare life, and displaced people / Jon Stratton
- Part IV: Zombies in the street. 16. Zombie London : unexceptionalities of the new world order / Fred Botting
- 17. Spooks of biopower : the uncanny carnivalesque of zombie walks / Simon Orpana
- 18. The scene of occupation / Tavia Nyong'o
- 19. The walking dead and killing state : zombification and the normalization of police violence / Travis Linnemann, Tyler Wall, and Edward Green
- Part V: New life for the undead. 20. Nekros : or, The poetics of biopolitics / Eugene Thacker
- 21. Grey : a zombie ecology / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- 22. A zombie manifesto : the nonhuman condition in the era of advanced capitalism / Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry
- 23. "We are the walking dead" : race, time, and survival in zombie narrative / Gerry Canavan.