Better Off Dead : The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.
Title:
Better Off Dead : The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.
Author:
Christie, Deborah.
ISBN:
9780823250868
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
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 1930s and 1940s 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 Narratives -- Imitations 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 -- Index.
Abstract:
The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to Internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective, Better Off Dead addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found, as well as providing the reader with a classic overview of the monster's folkloric and cinematic history. What has the zombie metaphor meant in the past? Why does it continue to be so prevalent in our culture? This collection seeks to provide an archaeology of the zombie--tracing its lineage from Haiti, mapping its various cultural transformations, and suggesting the post-humanist direction in which the zombie is ultimately heading. Though the contributors represent various theoretical perspectives, the volume makes a cohesive argument: the zombie has not just evolved within narratives, it has evolved in a way that transforms narrative. This collection announces a new post-zombie, even before the boundaries of this rich and mysterious myth have been completely charted.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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