03783nam 22006371 450 991045336850332120200520144314.01-4985-3240-30-7391-8383-4(CKB)2550000001157636(EBL)1528055(OCoLC)862745708(SSID)ssj0001041625(PQKBManifestationID)12394110(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041625(PQKBWorkID)11045289(PQKB)11699328(MiAaPQ)EBC1528055(Au-PeEL)EBL1528055(CaPaEBR)ebr10799465(CaONFJC)MIL540682(EXLCZ)99255000000115763620131107h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThinking dead what the zombie apocalypse means /edited by Murali BalajiLanham :Lexington Books,[2013]©20131 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-8382-6 1-306-09431-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 SpaceChapter 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 DeadChapter Eleven: Space Junk and the Second Event: The Cosmic Meaning of the Zombie ApocalypseIII: Eating the Undead: Consumption and Cultural Industries; Chapter Twelve: The Necropolitics of the Apocalypse: Queer Zombies in the Cinema of Bruce LaBruce; Chapter Thirteen: XXXombies: Economies of Desire and Disgust; Chapter Fourteen: The Heart-Throb Zombie: Teen Movies and Summit Entertainment's Construction of Warm Bodies; Chapter Fifteen: Eating the Dead: AMC's Use of Synergy to Cultivate Zombie Consumption; Contributors; IndexThinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means, edited by Murali Balaji, examines various aspects of the zombie apocalypse scenario from the perspective of a variety of theoretical frameworks. Essays in the collection shed light on why we are so obsessed with the undead. This is a cutting-edge volume for the growing scholarship on media representations of zombies. Apocalyptic literatureZombiesHistoryZombiesElectronic books.Apocalyptic literature.ZombiesHistory.Zombies.398.21Balaji Murali1979-883566MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453368503321Thinking dead1973547UNINA