04830 am 22008173u 450 991021986060332120200113204853.01-78374-331-X2-8218-9731-61-78374-330-1(CKB)3800000000216174(MiAaPQ)EBC4901451(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-4255(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62934(PPN)224385917(EXLCZ)99380000000021617420200113h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierZombies in Western culture a twenty-first century crisis /John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip MiscevicOpen Book Publishers2017Cambridge, United Kingdom :Open Book Publishers,[2017]©20171 online resource (106 pages) illustrations (chiefly color)1-78374-329-8 1-78374-328-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-90) and index.1. A new Zeitgeist -- 2. A transition in metaphors: a brief history of monster Zeitgeists -- 3. The four symbols of the zombie metaphor -- 4. A worldview in crisis: the domicide of apocalypse -- 5. The four horsemen of the zombie apocalypse: converging evidence for a crisis in meaning -- 6. An introduction to the genealogy of the meaning crisis -- 7. Conclusion.Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of “domicide” or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.ZombiesPsychological aspectsAlienation (Social psychology)Displacement (Psychology)Popular culturePsychological aspectsZombiesSocial aspectsZombies in popular cultureZombies in motion picturesZombies in literatureSociety in literatureCivilization, ModernWestern cultureZombiespopular culturecrisis of meaningcultural studiesapocalypsealienationmedia studiesZombiesPsychological aspects.Alienation (Social psychology)Displacement (Psychology)Popular culturePsychological aspects.ZombiesSocial aspects.Zombies in popular culture.Zombies in motion pictures.Zombies in literature.Society in literature.Civilization, Modern.398.21Vervaeke John997769Mastropietro ChristopherMiscevic FilipMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910219860603321Zombies in Western culture2288356UNINA