Better off dead : the evolution of the zombie as post-human / edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro.

Other author Christie, Deborah.
Other author Lauro, Sarah Juliet.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Descriptionviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents "They are not men ... they are dead bodies": from cannibal to zombie and back again / Chera Kee -- "We are the mirror of your fears": Haitian identity and zombification / Franck Degoul (translated by Elisabeth M. Lore) -- Undead radio: zombies and the living dead on 1930s and 1940s radio drama / Richard Hand -- The zombie as other: mortality and the monstrous in the post-nuclear age / Kevin Boon -- A dead new world: Richard Matheson and the modern zombie / Deborah Christie -- Nuclear death and radical hope in Dawn of the dead and On the beach / Nick Muntean -- Lucio Fulci and the decaying definition of zombie narratives / Steven Zani and Kevin Meaux -- Imitations of life: zombies and the suburban Gothic / Bernice Murphy -- All dark inside: dehumanization and zombification in postmodern cinema / Sorcha Ni Fhlainn -- Slacker bites back: Shaun of the dead finds new life for deadbeats / Lynn Pifer -- Zombie movies and the "millennial generation" / Peter Dendle -- "Off the page and into your brains!": new millennium zombies and the scourge of hopeful apocalypses / Margo Collins and Elson Bond -- Playing dead: zombies invade performance art, and your neighborhood / Sarah Juliet Lauro.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011007494
ISBN9780823234462 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823234460 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823234479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0823234479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823234486 (epub)
ISBN0823234487 (epub)