The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-032-05695-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 1623 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 3110 g

This Handbook is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the Zombie. This project will show that while there are many zombies and many texts about zombies it is still often mistakenly viewed as little more than a sub-genre of Horror. However, its history and multiplicity warrants something far more ambitious in terms of cataloguing and defining its many forms, types and possible readings. Consequently, this Handbook proposes to feature elements of all the many and varied representations, narratives, and theories of the zombie, across cultures, histories and mediums to show that it is not just as multifaceted story-world, but is much more akin to a genre in its own right, or what we might term the Zombie Megatext.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacon, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Folklore and the Returning Dead: Europe.- Folklore and the Returning Dead: Asia and Middle East.- Zombies in 19th and Early 20th Century Literature.- Vodou/Voodoo.- Zombies in Hollywood 1930s-50s.- Writing the Zombie Post WWII.- Zombies Across the Globe Post WWII.- After the Night of the Living Dead.- Zombie Exploitation.- Zombie Ideologies.- Zombies and Sexuality.- Zombie Comics, Manga and Anime.- Gaming and Role Play: Immersion to Extraction.- Zombie Franchises.- Zombies are Just Like Us.- Zombies and Modern Life.- 21st Century Zombie Literature.- Indigenous Identity and Zombies.- The Asian Zombie Revival.- The Anthropocene and Zombie Futures.

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored, edited or co-edited 40 books on various subjects including (Peter Lang 2018), (Peter Lang 2019), (Peter Lang 2020), and (Lexington 2023). He has also published a series of books on the undead in popular culture which includes: (Lexington 2022), (Peter Lang 2022), (McFarland 2023), (Peter Lang 2024), (Bloomsbury 2024), and (Palgrave 2024). He is also series editor for Genre, Fiction and Film Companions, and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead, both at Peter Lang and can be contacted at: [e-mail].