Deconstructing The Zombie. Cultural and Ideological Approaches
Información General
- Autores: Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria (ed. lit.), Cristina Algaba (ed. lit.)
- Editores: Dykinson
- Año de publicación: 2025
- País: España
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 979-13-7006-349-8
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Resumen
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have not experienced a moment of calm. A spectre haunts the world: the spectre of permanent crisis. Indeed, the forthcoming social, economic, and political conditions will favour the zombies, ensuring their continued presence in our cultural agenda. Throughout several literary, cinematographic, serial fiction and video game cultural productions, this character has served as a symbolic representation of the individual at different times in history. Whether by harshly denouncing the alienated or passive attitudes that human beings tend to adopt in certain situations, urging them to rebel against the system, or by portraying the zombie as a victim of human racial, gender, social, or class prejudices, and of their desire to exert power over their own and other species.
Otros catálogos
Listado de artículos
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I. Power, labour & economy
Fear the fetish: media, monster capitalism and the meta-myth of zombies
págs. 27-38
págs. 39-46
págs. 47-53
págs. 55-64
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II. Ethics, religion & society
págs. 67-76
The process of personal transformation of the figure of the zombie-killer hero through asian cinema: the case of "I am a hero"
págs. 77-84
Reunited against masses: individuality and collectivity in "The Walking Dead"
págs. 85-94
The God of the apocalypse: narratives about the divinity in "The Walking Dead"
págs. 95-104
págs. 105-112
“Alive or dead, the truth won’t rest”: politics and poetics of media revolutions under the zombie apocalypse in Mira Grant’s "Newflesh" trilogy
págs. 113-120
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III. Flesh, bodies & gender
Bodies beyond the grave: gender, body and disgust in female zombies
págs. 123-134
págs. 135-144
Animals vs. Zombies: representations and roles of the animal kingdom in zombie fiction
págs. 145-154
Agency of the flesh: humanness, obscenity, anddeath in Bruce Labruce’s m "Otto; or, Up with Dead People"
págs. 155-162
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IV. Politics & ideology
págs. 165-176
págs. 177-185
"The Last of Us": american individualism in survival horror
págs. 187-196
“You have to decide what side you’re on”: examining "iZombie’s" seasons three and four as contemporary political commentary
págs. 197-208
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V. Geographical adaptations
Can a zombie apocalypse transform Japanese society?: critical analysis of the zombie’s cultural significance in Japanese cinema
págs. 211-217
"Juan of the Dead": the scenario and socio-political criticism in zombie movies
págs. 219-225
A socio-cultural perspective on the representation of zombies in Nollywood: a study of C. J. Obasi’s "Ojuju" and Banji Oyemaja’s "Outbreak 2020"
págs. 227-236
“When the dead come out of their graves, the living will be their blood…”: zombie italian style
págs. 237-247
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VI. Social & cultural manifestations
The zombie: a metaphor to live (and die) by? a folk model of familiar monsters
págs. 251-265
págs. 265-273
Zombie reconstruction in contemporary society: the Zombie Mermaid
págs. 275-288
págs. 289-298
The march of the Neo-Baroque zombie: from human to hunger
Aarón Rodríguez Serrano, Teresa Sorolla Romero, Shaila García Catalán
págs. 299-309
Conclusion. Zombie universes: (pre-)configurations of a (post-)pandemic world
págs. 311-322
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