How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture : The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century


Kyle William. Bishop
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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Jefferson NC : : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2015.
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1 online resource (237 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Introduction-A Multiplicity of Zombies: How the Walking Dead Conquered Popular Culture; Part One: Generic Triad; 1-The (New) Cinematic Zombie: Road Trips, Globalization and World War Z; 2-The Comedic Zombie: Zombieland and the Classical Functions of the Modern Zomedy ; 3-The Young Adult Zombie: Teenage Anxiety in The Forest of Hands and Teeth; Part Two: Beyond Film; 4-The Comic Book Zombie: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead. - 5-The Literary Zombie: The Infected City of Colson Whitehead's Zone One6-The Stage Zombie: Dead Set, Uncle Vanya and Zombies, and the Reality-TV Monster; Part Three: Broader Horizons ; 7-The Video Game Zombie: The Last of Us and the Digital Evolution of the Walking Dead; 8-The Non-Zombie Zombie: The Tragically Misidentified Draugar of Dead Snow; 9-The Romantic Zombie: Warm Bodies and the Monstrous Boyfriend; Conclusion-The Television Zombie: The Future(s) of the Walking Dead ; Filmography. - Chapter Notes Bibliography ; Index. - "Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and astronomy. This critical examination of the 21st century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde"--
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9780786495412 (softcover : alk. paper)
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