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Informationen zum Autor Christopher M. Moreman is a professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, East Bay. He has published widely on topics relating to death, dying, and popular culture. Cory James Rushton is an associate professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Klappentext On the surface, the zombie seems the polar opposite of the human--they are the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive. But the zombie is also "us." Although decaying, it looks like us, dresses like us, and sometimes (if rarely) acts like us. In this volume, essays by scholars from a range of disciplines examine the zombie as a thematic presence in literature, film, video games, legal language, and philosophy, exploring topics including zombies and the environment, litigation, the afterlife, capitalism, and the erotic. Through this wide-ranging examination of the zombie phenomenon, the authors seek to discover what the zombie can teach us about being human. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction-They're Us: Zombies, Humans/Humans, ZombiesCORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN I. The Zombie in HumanityYour Zombie and You: Identity, Emotion, and the UndeadCRAIG DERKSEN and DARREN HUDSON HICK Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the DeadGRAHAM ST JOHN Porn of the Dead: Necrophilia, Feminism, and Gendering the UndeadSTEVE JONES Modern Zombie Makers: Enacting the Ancient Impulse to Control and Possess AnotherSUZANNE GOODNEY LEA "Corporate Zombies" and the Perils of "Zombie Litigation": The Walking Dead in American Judicial WritingSHARON SUTHERLAND and SARAH SWAN II. Zombies in the SacredThe Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the BibleMICHAEL J. GILMOUR Religion, Blasphemy, and Tradition in the Films of Lucio FulciJAMES REITTER The Mutated Spirit: The Hollywood Zombie as PsychopompKEIRA MCKENZIE Dharma of the Living Dead: A Buddhist Meditation on the ZombieCHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN III. Zombies into the FutureDigital Dead: Translating the Visceral and Satirical Elements of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead to VideogamesGARETH SCHOTT How the Zombie Changed VideogamesMATTHEW J. WEISE Undead Is the New Green: Zombies and Political EcologyGREG POLLOCK Plans Are Pointless; Staying Alive Is as Good as It Gets: Zombie Sociology and the Politics of SurvivalSARA SUTLER-COHEN Bibliography Filmography Video Games and Discography About the Contributors Index ...
