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"This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13 original scholarly essays on AMC's The Walking Dead. The first group of essays addresses the pervasive bloodletting of the series: What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence? The second half of the collection explores an equally urgent question: What does it mean to be human?"--
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface �BR>
Introduction: "We're All Infected" (Dawn Keetley) �BR>
Part I: Society's
The Zombie Apocalypse Is Upon Us! Homeland Insecurity (Philip L. Simpson) �
Burying the Living with the Dead: Security, Survival and the Sanction of Violence (Steven Pokornowski) �
Walking Tall or Walking Dead? The American Cowboy in the Zombie Apocalypse (P. Ivan Young) �
Asserting Law and Order Over the Mindless (Angus Nurse) �
Rest in Pieces: Violence in Mourning the (Un)Dead (Laura Kremmel) �
Roadside "Vigil" for the Dead: Cannibalism, Fossil Fuels and the American Dream (Christine Heckman) �
Mass Shock Therapy for Atlanta's Psych(ot)ic Suburban Legacy (Paul Boshears) �0
Part II: Posthumanity
Apocalyptic Utopia: The Zombie and the (r)Evolution of Subjectivity (Chris Boehm) �6
Nothing But the Meat: Posthuman Bodies and the Dying Undead (Xavier Aldana Reyes) �2
Human Choice and Zombie Consciousness (Dawn Keetley) �6
"Talking Bodies" in a Zombie Apocalypse: From the Discursive to the Shitty Sublime (Gary Farnell) �3
Zombie Time: Temporality and Living Death (Gwyneth Peaty) �6
Afterword: Bye-Gone Days: Reç¸ ctions on Romero, Kirkman and What We Become (Dave Beisecker) �1
Bibliography �5
List of Episodes �7
About the Contributors �9
Index �3
About the author
Dawn Keetley is a professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
