Description
Book SynopsisAnalyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the “extra-ordinary” undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living.
Trade ReviewKee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *
[An] ambitious study...
Not Your Average Zombie is an insightful, clearly written, and well-researched book that both students and experts in the field of zombie studies will enjoy. * Alphaville *
Kee's
Not Your Average Zombie is an important book…Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly *
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Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field…a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *
Rather than conclude that the zombie genre is static, [Kee] highlights extraordinary examples of the zombies, zombification, and zombie culture that hint at human agency amongst those often deemed brainless pawns or dehumanized bodies...In each chapter, Kee spends several pages establishing context before she focuses on her examples of extraordinary zombies. What results is robust coverage of every possible example. * ImageTexT *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie: The Extra-Ordinary Undead
- Part I. Zombie Identities
- Chapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields: Haiti, Vodou, and Early Zombie Films
- Chapter 2. Racialized and Raceless: Race after Death and Zombie Revolution
- Chapter 3. "You Can't Hurt Me, You Can't Destroy Me, You Can't Control Me": White Women in Zombie Films
- Chapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line: Women of Color and Voodoo
- Part II. Playing the Zombie
- Chapter 5. "Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains": Playing the Zombie in Video Games
- Chapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie: Performing the Living Dead
- Conclusion. "I Think I'm Dead."
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
