Living with Zombies
Society in Apocalypse in Film, Literature and Other Media
Seiten
2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6584-9 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6584-9 (ISBN)
For students, critics, and zombie aficionados, this book offer responses to the end of the world as we know it. Along the way, it argues that the traditional evolutionary model of interpreting zombies is not enough; we must also chase zombies from advent through destruction and toward reintegration as we learn to live alongside them.
Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.
Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.
Chase Pielak teaches English at Auburn University. Alexander H. Cohen has written about such topics as zombies, active learning, and how weather affects politics. He lives in Potsdam, New York.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Living with Zombies
1. Approaching the Apocalypse
2. Parsing Apocalypses
3. Apocalyptic Temporality
4. Apocalyptic Causes (by Matt Lewerenz, Chase Pielak and Alexander H. Cohen)
5. Apocalyptic Living (by Chase Pielak and Fanny Ramirez)
6. Curing the Apocalypse
7. Archiving the Apocalypse
Conclusion: Yes, but in a Zombie Apocalypse
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contributions to Zombie Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 19 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 277 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6584-2 / 1476665842 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6584-9 / 9781476665849 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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