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Zombie Talk

Culture, History, Politics

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Authors:
  1. David R. Castillo

    1. State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

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  2. David Schmid

    1. State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

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  3. David A. Reilly

    1. Department of Political Science, Niagara University, USA

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  4. John Edgar Browning

    1. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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  • Examines the portrayal of zombies across a variety of disciplines and depictions from multiple cultures
  • Analyzes the increasingly growing prevalence of zombies within our culture and the reasons for it
  • Introduces a novel historical materialist approach to analyze the zombie phenomenon

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Our Zombies, Our Remnants

    • David R. Castillo, John Edgar Browning
    Pages 1-8

  3. Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth through to the Postmillennium

    • John Edgar Browning
    Pages 9-38

  4. Zombie Masses: Monsters for the Age of Global Capitalism

    • David R. Castillo
    Pages 39-62

  5. The Coming Apocalypses of Zombies and Globalization

    • David A. Reilly
    Pages 63-91

  6. The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age

    • David Schmid
    Pages 92-107

  7. Afterword: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?

    • William Egginton
    Pages 108-114

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 115-129
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

    David R. Castillo, David Schmid

  • Department of Political Science, Niagara University, USA

    David A. Reilly

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

    John Edgar Browning

About the authors

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.

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