Better off dead [electronic resource] : the evolution of the zombie as post-human / edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro
- Published
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Christie, Deborah and Lauro, Sarah Juliet
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- License restrictions may limit access.
- Contents
- "They are not men ... they are dead bodies": from cannibal to zombie and back again / Chera Kee -- "We are the mirror of your fears": Haitian identity and zombification / Franck Degoul (translated by Elisabeth M. Lore) -- Undead radio: zombies and the living dead on 1930s and 1940s radio drama / Richard Hand -- The zombie as other: mortality and the monstrous in the post-nuclear age / Kevin Boon -- A dead new world: Richard Matheson and the modern zombie / Deborah Christie -- Nuclear death and radical hope in Dawn of the dead and On the beach / Nick Muntean -- Lucio Fulci and the decaying definition of zombie narratives / Steven Zani and Kevin Meaux -- Imitations of life: zombies and the suburban Gothic / Bernice Murphy -- All dark inside: dehumanization and zombification in postmodern cinema / Sorcha Ni Fhlainn -- Slacker bites back: Shaun of the dead finds new life for deadbeats / Lynn Pifer -- Zombie movies and the "millennial generation" / Peter Dendle -- "Off the page and into your brains!": new millennium zombies and the scourge of hopeful apocalypses / Margo Collins and Elson Bond -- Playing dead: zombies invade performance art, and your neighborhood / Sarah Juliet Lauro.
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- ISBN
- 9780823234462 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823234460 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823234479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823234479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780823234486 (epub)
0823234487 (epub) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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