How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture

The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7864-9541-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Contributions to Zombie Studies

Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a ""Zombie Renaissance,"" beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and astronomy. They are powerful, multifarious metaphors representing fears of contagion and doom but also isolation and abandonment, as well as troubling aspects of human cruelty, public spectacle and abusive relationships. This critical examination of the 21st century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bishop, Kyle William

Über Autor(innen)

Kyle William Bishop is an assistant professor at Southern Utah University, USA where he teaches American literature and culture, film studies, fantasy literature, and English composition. He has presented and published a variety of papers on popular culture and cinematic adaptation.