Hubner, Laura
The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture
Part I. The Zombie Renaissance
1. Introduction
Laura Hubner, Marcus Leaning, 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 William Bishop
Part II. Zombies Go to the Movies
4. Archiving Gore: Who Owns
Laura Hubner
5. Consumerism and the Undead City: The
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:
Darren Reed, Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Part IV. Zombie Fans and Digital Cultures
10. Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and YouTube
Marcus Leaning
11. Zombies, 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
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Film and Television Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
- Editor
- Hubner, Laura
- Leaning, Marcus
- Manning, Paul
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 237 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137276506
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-44667-4