[ecrea] new book: The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture

The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture

Eds Laura Hubner, Marcus Leaning and Paul Manning

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN 9781137276490

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-zombie-renaissance-in-popular-culture-laura-hubner/?K=9781137276490 


Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

PART I: THE ZOMBIE RENAISSANCE
1. Introduction; Laura Hubner, Marcus Leaning and Paul Manning
2. An Infected Population: Zombie Culture and the Modern Monstrous; Ian 
Conrich
3. 'I always wanted to see how the other half lives': The Contemporary 
Zombie as Seductive Proselyte; Kyle Bishop

PART II: ZOMBIES GO TO THE MOVIES
4. Archiving Gore: Who Owns /Zombie Flesh Eaters/?; Laura Hubner
5. Consumerism and the Undead City: The /Silent Hill/ and /Resident 
Evil/ Films; Antonio Sanna
6. The Undead Down Under; Steven Allen

PART III: ZOMBIES INVADE TELEVISION, VIDEO GAMES AND MUSIC
7. Rocking with the Undead: How Zombies Infected the Psychobilly 
Subculture; Jane Dipple
8. A Utilitarian Antagonist: The Zombie in Popular Video Games; Nathan Hunt
9. Zombies and the Sociological Imagination: /The Walking Dead/ as 
Social-Science Fiction; Darren Reed and Ruth Penfold-Mounce

PART IV: ZOMBIE FANS AND DIGITAL CULTURES
10. Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and 
YouTube; Marcus Leaning
11. Zomedies, Digital Fan Cultures and the Politics of Taste; Paul Manning
12.Zombie Culture: Dissent, Celebration and the Carnivalesque in Social 
Spaces; Emma Austin

PART V: ZOMBIES IN WRITING AND CULTURE
13. The Galvanic 'Unhuman': Technology, the Living Dead and the 
'Animal-Machine' in Literature and Culture; Fran Mason
14. Zombies, a Lost Literary Heritage and the Return of the Repressed; 
Toby Venables