Zombie culture : autopsies of the living dead / edited by Shawn McIntosh, Marc Leverette.

Other author McIntosh, Shawn.
Other author Leverette, Marc.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Zombie films--History and criticism.

Contents The evolution of the zombie : the monster that keeps coming back / Shawn McIntosh -- The folklore of the zombie film / Mikel J. Koven -- Zombie splatter comedy from Dawn to Shaun : cannibal carnivalesque / Linda Badley -- Vita, amore, e morte-- and lots of gore : the Italian zombie film / Brad O'Brien -- The space of apocalypse in zombie cinema / David Pagano -- Zombies without organs : gender, flesh, and fissure / Patricia MacCormack -- Cannibalizing gender and genre : a feminist re-vision of George Romero's zombie films / Natasha Patterson -- Hybridity and post-human anxiety in 28 days later / Martin Rogers -- Can't sleep when you're dead : sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the undead in psychobilly / Annelise Sklar -- Zombies in gamespace : form, context, and meaning in zombie-based video games / Tanya Krzywinska -- "Now I'm feeling zombified" : playing the zombie online / Ron Scott -- The funk of forty thousand years; or, How the (un)dead get their groove on / Marc Leverette.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography: p. 213-218.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index.
LCCN 2007035834
ISBN9780810860438 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0810860430 (pbk. : alk. paper)