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Balaji Murali <1979-> |
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Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means / / edited by Murali Balaji |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-4985-3240-3 |
0-7391-8383-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Apocalyptic literature |
Zombies - History |
Zombies |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Thinking Dead: Our Obsession with the Undead and Its Implications; I: Zombies as the Other and Ourselves; Chapter One: Perfect Strangers: The Zombie Imaginary and the Logic of Representation; Chapter Two: The Social Dead: How Our Zombie Baggage Threatens to Drag Us into the Crypts of Our Past; Chapter Three: "Fight the Dead, Fear the Living": Zombie Apocalypse, Libertarian Paradise?; Chapter Four: Simulating the Zombie Apocalypse in Popular Culture and Media; II: The Zombie Apocalypse and Social, Technological, and Psychological Space |
Chapter Five: Return to Darkness: Representations of Africa in Resident Evil 5Chapter Six: Same as It Ever Was: Savior Narratives and the Logics of Survival in The Walking Dead; Chapter Seven: The Zombie Media Monster's Evolution to Empty Undead Signifier; Chapter Eight: Gothic Monster and Chinese Cultural Identity: Analysis of The Note of Ghoul; Chapter Nine: Zombies and the Modern American Family: Surviving the Destruction of Traditional Society in Zombieland (2009); Chapter Ten: Leave It All Behind: The Post-Apocalyptical Renunciation of Technology in The Walking Dead |
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