Overview

"Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a ""Zombie Renaissance,"" beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. 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. They are powerful, multifarious metaphors representing fears of contagion and doom but also isolation and abandonment, as well as troubling aspects of human cruelty, public spectacle and abusive relationships. 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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Author:   Kyle William Bishop
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9780786495412

ISBN 10:   0786495413
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   09 October 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Table of 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 One 6—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

Reviews

"""explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century""--Communications Booknotes Quarterly; ""[Bishop's] work surpasses the expected and moves into the exceptional...does not disappoint. Bishop takes care in his writing to ensure that even dense and narrow subject matter is explained...an enjoyable read...a necessary book [for] the zombie scholar's shelf""--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts."

explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century --Communications Booknotes Quarterly.

Author Information

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

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