How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture

The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Television, Performing Arts, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Kyle William Bishop ISBN: 9781476622088
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: October 2, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Kyle William Bishop
ISBN: 9781476622088
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: October 2, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

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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.

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