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What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical …
Gregory Waller shows why the vampires continues to fascinate us in film and fiction. He focuses upon a series of interrelated novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies.
The zombie renaissance in popular culture
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This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films games, m…
The zombie renaissance in popular culture
by Manning, Paul, Leaning, Marcus, Hubner, Laura
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Type: Book
The zombie renaissance in popular culture
by Manning, Paul, Leaning, Marcus, Hubner, Laura
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Type: Book
This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films games, m…
"Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocativ…
"Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal - life after death. Often ragged, unkempt, ill-spoken, rotting individuals, zombies(or the post-dead) seem socially awkward in comparison to the more popular and more aristocratic, undead, like Count D…
Stories of the undead -- Rules of emergence (and the emergence of rules) -- Familiar storytelling and popular memories -- Making, breaking and bending rules at the textual margins -- Unstable media, infectious stories and migratory rules -- Delayed apocalypse, deliberate design.…
"For all of its current popularity, contemporary apocalyptic fiction-novels set during or after events that devastate the world as we know it-is part of a long tradition that includes the Biblical story of Noah, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Works and Days of the ancient Greek …
"This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal - that they embody an aesthetic that combines horror with a mindless target; that lower age ratings f…
"What if the human species were to get in touch with another intelligent species, thus far unknown? This question is the impetus for a vast, exciting catalogue of possible science fiction and fantasy stories. They serve as hypothetical answers in narrative form but can also be r…