Zombie Talk - Culture, History, Politics

Informationen zum Autor David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. David Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.   David A. Reilly is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Niagara University, USA.   John Edgar Browning is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Klappentext Zombie Talk offers a concise! interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies! the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero! television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead! to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride! Prejudice and Zombies (2009)! among others. Zusammenfassung Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Our Zombies, Our Bodies; David R. Castillo and John Edgar Browning 1. Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth Through to the Postmillennium; John Edgar Browning 2. Zombie Masses: Monsters for the Age of Global Capitalism; David R. Castillo 3. The Coming Apocalypses of Zombies and Globalization; David A. Reilly 4. The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age; David Schmid Afterword: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?; William Egginton ...

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• Authors: J. Browning, John Edga Browning, John Edgar Browning, Davi Castillo, David Castillo, David R. Castillo, David R. Schmid Castillo, David A. Reilly, D. Schmid, David Schmid
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9781137575241
• ISBN: 978-1-137-57524-1
• No. of pages: 139
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Genre, C, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Democracy, Political Science, Communication, biotechnology, Political structures: democracy, Media and Communication, Media Research, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies, United States—Study and teaching, American Culture