Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human
Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human
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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, with an emphasis on deep analytical engagement with diverse kinds of texts, this book addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found while providing the reader with a classic overview of the zombie'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? Where others have looked at the zombie as an allegory for humanity's inner machinations or claimed the zombie as capitalist critique, this book 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. Approaching the zombie from many different points of view, the chapters here look across history and across media. Though they represent various theoretical perspectives, the whole makes a cohesive argument: The zombie has not just evolved within narratives; it has evolved in a way that transforms narrative. This book announces a new post-zombie, even before the boundaries of this rich and mysterious myth have been completely charted.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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And the Dead Shall Rise: Part introduction by Kevin Boon
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“They are not men … they are dead bodies”: From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again
Chera Kee
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“We are the mirror of your fears”: Haitian Identity and Zombification
Franck Degoul
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Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama
Richard Hand
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The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age
Kevin Boon
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“They are not men … they are dead bodies”: From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again
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And the Dead Shall Walk
Christie Deborah-
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A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie
Deborah Christie
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Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach
Nick Muntean
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Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives
Steven Zani andKevin Meaux
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Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic
Bernice Murphy
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All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie
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And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth
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Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats
Lynn Pifer
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Zombie Movies and the “Millennial Generation”
Peter Dendle
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“Off the page and into your brains!”: New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses
Margo Collins andElson Bond
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Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art … and Your Neighborhood
Sarah Juliet Lauro
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Afterword: Zombie (R)evolution
Sarah Juliet Lauro
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Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats
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End Matter
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