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OverviewThe zombie apocalypse hasn't happened-yet-but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don't conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how ""extra-ordinary"" zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, ""extra-ordinary"" zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chera KeePublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9781477313305ISBN 10: 1477313303 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 05 September 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie: The Extra-Ordinary Undead Part I. Zombie Identities Chapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields: Haiti, Vodou, and Early Zombie Films Chapter 2. Racialized and Raceless: Race after Death and Zombie Revolution Chapter 3. ""You Can't Hurt Me, You Can't Destroy Me, You Can't Control Me"": White Women in Zombie Films Chapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line: Women of Color and Voodoo Part II. Playing the Zombie Chapter 5. ""Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains"": Playing the Zombie in Video Games Chapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie: Performing the Living Dead Conclusion. ""I Think I'm Dead."" Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews[Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field...a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts * Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book...Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly * Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal * [An] ambitious study...Not Your Average Zombie is an insightful, clearly written, and well-researched book that both students and experts in the field of zombie studies will enjoy. * Alphaville * Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal * Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book...Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly * [Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field...a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts * Rather than conclude that the zombie genre is static, [Kee] highlights extraordinary examples of the zombies, zombification, and zombie culture that hint at human agency amongst those often deemed brainless pawns or dehumanized bodies...In each chapter, Kee spends several pages establishing context before she focuses on her examples of extraordinary zombies. What results is robust coverage of every possible example. * ImageTexT * [Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field...a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure.-- Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (12/1/2019 12:00:00 AM) Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender.-- Popular Culture Studies Journal (10/1/2018 12:00:00 AM) Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book...Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice.-- American Quarterly (12/1/2018 12:00:00 AM) Rather than conclude that the zombie genre is static, [Kee] highlights extraordinary examples of the zombies, zombification, and zombie culture that hint at human agency amongst those often deemed brainless pawns or dehumanized bodies...In each chapter, Kee spends several pages establishing context before she focuses on her examples of extraordinary zombies. What results is robust coverage of every possible example.-- ImageTexT (11/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book...Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly * Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal * Author InformationChera Kee is an associate professor of film and media studies in the Department of English at Wayne State University. Her essays on zombies have been published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television and the edited volume Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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