LEADER 03789nam 22006371 450 001 9910808854203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4985-3240-3 010 $a0-7391-8383-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001157636 035 $a(EBL)1528055 035 $a(OCoLC)862745708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12394110 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11045289 035 $a(PQKB)11699328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1528055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1528055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10799465 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL540682 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001157636 100 $a20131107h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThinking dead $ewhat the zombie apocalypse means /$fedited by Murali Balaji 210 1$aLanham :$cLexington Books,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-8382-6 311 $a1-306-09431-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $aThinking 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. 606 $aApocalyptic literature 606 $aZombies$xHistory 606 $aZombies 615 0$aApocalyptic literature. 615 0$aZombies$xHistory. 615 0$aZombies. 676 $a398.21 700 $aBalaji$b Murali$f1979-$01657033 702 $aBalaji$b Murali$f1979- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808854203321 996 $aThinking dead$94010201 997 $aUNINA