The Walking Med - Zombies and the Medical Image

Shows how our understanding of narratives of illness can by transformed byrecognizing the zombie metaphors within them and how the recent medicalization ofpopular zombie narratives has added new dimensions to what is symbolized by thisfigure.

About the author

Lorenzo Servitje is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside, and the coeditor of Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory.Sherryl Vint is Professor and Director of the Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science program at the University of California, Riverside, editor of Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader, and an editor of the journals Science Fiction Studies and Science Fiction Film and Television.

Summary

Shows how our understanding of narratives of illness can by transformed byrecognizing the zombie metaphors within them and how the recent medicalization ofpopular zombie narratives has added new dimensions to what is symbolized by thisfigure.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Servitje
• Assisted by: Lorenzo Servitje (Editor), Lorenzo (University of California Servitje (Editor), Servitje Lorenzo (Editor), Author Sherryl (Brock University) Vint (Editor), Sherryl Vint (Editor), Sherryl (University of California Vint (Editor), Vint Sherryl (Editor), Schlozman Steven C. (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2016
• EAN: 9780271077123
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07712-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Graphic Medicine; Graphic Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Medizin, allgemein, Medicine: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Horror, MEDICAL / Essays, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Science Fiction / General