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Informationen zum Autor Murali Balaji is assistant professor of media studies and production at Temple University. Klappentext Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means, edited by Murali Balaji, examines various aspects of the zombie apocalypse scenario from the perspective of a variety of theoretical frameworks. Essays in the collection shed light on why we are so obsessed with the undead. This is a cutting-edge volume for the growing scholarship on media representations of zombies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction - Thinking Dead: Our obsession with the Undead and Its Implications Murali Balaji, Ph.DPart I: Zombies as the Other and OurselvesChapter 1: Perfect Strangers: The Zombie Imaginary and the Logic of RepresentationGordon Coonfield, Ph.DChapter 2: The Social Dead: How Our Zombie Baggage Threatens to Drag Us into the Crypts of Our PastAngela CirucciChapter 3: "Fight the Dead, Fear The Living": Zombie Apocalypse or Libertarian Paradise?Jennifer M. Proffitt, Ph.DRich Templin, Ph.DChapter 4: Simulating Zombies in Popular Culture and MediaPatrick Hamilton, Ph.DPart II: The Zombie Apocalypse and Social, Technological and Psychological SpaceChapter 5: Return to Darkness: Representations of Africa in Resident Evil 5Hanli GeyserChapter 6: Same as it ever was: Savior Narratives and the Logics of Survival in The Walking DeadMartina BaldwinMark McCarthyChapter 7: The Zombie Monster's Evolution to Empty Undead SignifierRyan Lizardi, Ph.DChapter 8: Gothic Monster and Chinese Cultural Identity: Analysis of The Note of GhoulMeijiadai BaiChapter 9: Zombies and the Modern American Family: Surviving the Destruction of Traditional Society in ZombielandCassie OzogChapter 10: Leave it all Behind: The post-Apocalyptical Renunciation of Technology in the Walking DeadAlicia KozmaChapter 11: Space Junk and the Second Event: The Cosmic Meaning of the Zombie ApocalypseBarry Vacker, Ph.DPart III: Eating the Undead: Consumption and Cultural IndustriesChapter 12: The Necropolitics of the Apocalypse: Queer Zombies in the Cinema of Bruce LaBruceArnau RoigChapter 13: XXXombies: Economies of Desire and DisgustSteve Jones, Ph.DChapter 14: Teen Movies and Summit Entertainment's Construction of Warm BodiesCate BuckleyChapter 15: Eating the Dead: AMC's use of Synergy to Cultivate Zombie ConsumptionMurali Balaji, Ph.D...
