{"product_id":"generation-zombie-essays-on-the-living-dead-in-modern-culture-contributions-to-zombie-studies-9780786461400","title":"Generation Zombie Essays on the Living Dead in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had on late modernity. Topics covered include representations of zombies in films, the zombie as environmental critique, its role in mass psychology and how issues of race, class and gender are expressed through zombie narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“demonstrates that zombies, as a field, has the heft to sustain serious academic inquiry…contributes to the field because it links zombies to some of the foundational questions of modernity and specifically the instability of many modernity’s assumptions…a fun and engaging critical field to a casual reader or students of cultural studies…many of these essays make important claims…Zombie experts should take note…. most interesting…This collection provides a range of exciting lines of flight and ample evidence that zombies are, and have long been, an important trope in the articulation of anxieties related to our globalist future.”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“zombies have come to stand for everything from conformity and consumerism to dangerous science and the military industrial complex… fertile ground here for those of us who like to deconstruct pop-culture and seek out all the hidden undercurrents…extremely literary essays that investigate a series of thought provoking topics…very interesting…fascinating…extremely engaging and thought provoking”—Bricks of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“collects some academic perspectives on z-horror, including zombie origins, environmental contagion, living-dead crowd psychology, and zombies on campus”—C\u0026amp;RL News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“presents 16 essays that examine the zombie’s evolution, continually evolving manifestations in popular culture and effects on modernity. Topics include the zombie in film, zombie as environmental critique and issues of race, class and gender”—CBQ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Generation Z, the Age of Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz)      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZombies as Internal Fear or Threat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Kim Paffenroth)      18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite Zombie and the Creole: William Seabrook’s The Magic Island and American Imperialism in Haiti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Gyllian Phillips)      27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Origin of the Zombie in American Radio and Film: B- Horror, U.S. Empire, and the Politics of Disavowal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Chris Vials)      41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eco-Zombie: Environmental Critique in Zombie Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Sarah Juliet Lauro)      54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost Bodies\/Lost Souls: Night of the Living Dead and Deathdream as Vietnam Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Karen Randell)      67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShambling Towards Mount Improbable to Be Born: American Evolutionary Anxiety and the Hopeful Monsters of Matheson’s I Am Legend and Romero’s Dead Films\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Sean Moreland)      77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZtopia: Lessons in Post- Vital Politics in George Romero’s Zombie Films\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Tyson E. Lewis)      90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoft Murders: Motion Pictures and Living Death in Diary of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Randy Laist)      101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMass Psychology and the Analysis of the Zombie: From Suggestion to Contagion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Phillip Mahoney)      113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGray Is the New Black: Race, Class, and Zombies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Aalya Ahmad)      130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyberpunk and the Living Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Andrea Austin)      147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe End Begins: John Wyndham’s Zombie Cozy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Terry Harpold)      156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZombies in a “Deep, Dark Ocean of History”: Danny Boyle’s Infected and John Wyndham’s Triffids as Metaphors of Postwar Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Nicole LaRose)      165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Shaka McGlotten)      182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe E- Dead: Zombies in the Digital Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Brendan Riley)      194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Brain Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Isolation U. and the Campus Zombie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Brian Greenspan)      206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhetoric Goes Boom(er): Agency, Networks, and Zombies at Play\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Scott Reed)      219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National Strategy for Zombie Containment: Myth Meets Activism in Post–9\/11 America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Christopher Zealand)      231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors      249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex      253","brand":"McFarland and Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038043701591,"sku":"9780786461400","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780786461400.jpg?v=1750938792","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/generation-zombie-essays-on-the-living-dead-in-modern-culture-contributions-to-zombie-studies-9780786461400","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}