Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means / / edited by Murali Balaji
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| Autore: |
Balaji Murali <1979->
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| Titolo: |
Thinking dead : what the zombie apocalypse means / / edited by Murali Balaji
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 398.21 |
| Soggetto topico: | Apocalyptic literature |
| Zombies - History | |
| Zombies | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Chapter 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Thinking 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thinking dead |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-3240-3 |
| 0-7391-8383-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453368503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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