03187nam 2200625 a 450 991082603540332120200520144314.00-8232-4125-40-8232-5086-5(CKB)2550000000054744(EBL)3239590(OCoLC)763156431(SSID)ssj0000628073(PQKBManifestationID)11401336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628073(PQKBWorkID)10701874(PQKB)10281821(StDuBDS)EDZ0000054495(MiAaPQ)EBC3239590(Au-PeEL)EBL3239590(CaPaEBR)ebr10497676(EXLCZ)99255000000005474420110302d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBetter off dead the evolution of the zombie as post-human /edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20111 online resource (304 p.)0-8232-3446-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Copyright ; Contents; Better Off Dead; And the Dead Shall Rise; ''They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!'': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again; ''We are the mirror of your fears'': Haitian Identity and Zombification; Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930's and 1940's Radio Drama; The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age; And the Dead Shall Walk; A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie; Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach; Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie NarrativesImitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema; And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth; Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats; Zombie Movies and the ''Millennial Generation''; ''Off the page and into your brains!'': New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses; Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood; Selected Biography ; Contributors ; IndexFrom comic books to video games, to internet applications & homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on deep analytical engagement with diverse kinds of texts, this volume addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found.ZombiesZombies in popular cultureZombies in literatureZombies in motion picturesZombies.Zombies in popular culture.Zombies in literature.Zombies in motion pictures.398.21Christie Deborah1709071Lauro Sarah Juliet886318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826035403321Better off dead4098518UNINA