[ecrea] CFP Deconstructing the Zombie: Cultural and Ideological Approaches

Deconstructing the Zombie: Cultural and Ideological Approaches

We would like to invite you to participate in the academic book we are 
currently editing, entitled /Deconstructing the Zombie: Cultural and 
Ideological Approaches/.

We will appreciate if you share this Call For Chapters information with 
those colleagues who may be interested in the project. Original 
manuscripts are accepted in Spanish or English.

The project will be published by Editorial Doble J, a specialized 
editorial in Politics, Philosophy, Arts and Music academic studies, 
which is indexed in Scholarly Publishers Indicators in Humanities and 
Social Sciences (SPI), SPI Expanded and Finnish List.


CALL FOR CHAPTERS


Despite their apparent simplicity, zombies are complex monsters. The 
zombie as an archetype has suffered several transformations in order to 
adapt itself to the different contextual circumstances that have 
surrounded its figure. For instance, the classic concept of zombie has 
its origins in the voodoo magic practised in Haiti, which supposedly 
made possible to stop the vital constants of a person with the 
consequent presumption of death. After the burial, the assumed corpse 
would be exhumed and revived, diminishing the victim’s will under the 
submission of the sorcerer. This is the performed role that appears in 
the first film that introduced the word zombie in its title, White 
Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1933). This image of the zombie maintained its 
validity until the late 1960s, when the filmmaker George E. Romero 
popularized a new version of the zombie, as a living dead insatiable 
hungry of human flesh.

Relegated for decades to low-budget productions, such as gore films and 
pulp adult comics, 21st-century zombies began an assault that made them 
one of the most consumed cultural products in mainstream media. Within 
the universe of unreal characters, the flesh eaters have reached a 
commendable second place, above the vampires and below the superheroes, 
which keep the first place in presence and financial profitability. 
(Resident Evil saga, 28 Days After, 28 Weeks After, The Walking Dead, 
Fear the Walking Dead, Z Nation, iZombie...).

Some zombies have surpassed a barrier that seemed insurmountable, and 
have become an object of consumption and enjoyment for the whole family 
(Zombieland, Warm Bodies, Shaun of the Dead...). They even have become 
the good guy of the film (iZombie...) or have shared stardom with 
Hollywood celebrities (World War Z…).

Before making the definitive leap to large budget films and television 
series, the undead conquered the world of video games (from the video 
arcade title The House of the Dead to current video game consoles with 
the Resident Evil saga) as well as comics and graphic novels (The 
Walking Dead). Now, in the wakes of vampires, they fill the pages of 
more and more books (World War Z, Zombie Fallout saga, The Zombie 
Survival Guide. Theories of International Politics and Zombies...).

The main purpose of our book is to compose a complete study about the 
figure of the zombie and its significance from a cultural and 
ideological academic approach. We are interested in its presence in all 
existing media: cinema, television, literature, comics, and video games, 
as well as music and painting.


Topics may include (but are not limited to):

•The Origins and History of Zombies
•Historical Roots around the Archetype of Zombie
•A Review of the Concept of ‘Zombie’
•Zombie Reconstructions in Contemporary Society
•The Representation of the Zombie in Cinema and Television
•The Zombie and the Capitalist Society
•The Zombie as a Criticism tool of the System
•The Zombie as a Supporter of the System
•The Zombie as a Capitalist Victim
•Media and Digital Zombification
•Zombies from Gender Studies
•The Figure of the Zombie from Psychoanalysis
•The Zombie and its Social Reintegration
•Zombies and Religion
•Zombies and Power
•Zombies and Politics
•Zombies and Violence
•Zombies and Sex
•Zombie Armies and Soldiers
•Zombies and Ecology

Please, submit your proposal (a 500-word abstract) and a biographical 
summary (200 words) to the following e-mail addresses: Alfonso M. 
Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón (University of Seville) 
alfonso.m / at / rodriguezdeaustria.es / Cristina Algaba (Universidad 
Loyola Andalucía) cpereza / at / uloyola.es

Original manuscripts are accepted in Spanish or English.

Deadline to submit chapter proposals: December 15, 2017

Once accepted, the coordinators of the project would request a first 
draft of the chapter by June 15, 2018. The final text should be sent to 
the emails mentioned above before September 15, 2018.

Proposal Submission Information (English): 
<http://www.filmstudies.eu/index.php/en/2017/09/call-for-chapters-deconstructing-the-zombie-cultural-and-ideological-approaches/>

Información sobre la convocatoria de capítulos de libro (Spanish): 
<http://www.filmstudies.eu/index.php/2017/09/convocatoria-de-capitulos-deconstructing-the-zombie-aproximaciones-culturales-e-ideologicas-en-torno-a-la-figura-del-no-muerto/> 




Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón
Film Studies <www.filmstudies.eu>

Contact e-mail: alfonso.m / at / rodriguezdeaustria.es

Profesor en la Especialización en Comunicación Audiovisual (Universidad 
Centroamericana de Nicaragua)
Licenciado en Filosofía y Doctor en Comunicación (Universidad de Sevilla)
Especialista Universitario en Derechos Humanos y Prácticas Ciudadanas 
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación Política, Ideología y Propaganda, 
IDECO
<https://grupoinvestigacionideco.wordpress.com/>









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