Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.

Examines the portrayal of zombies across a variety of disciplines and depictions from multiple cultures Analyzes the increasingly growing prevalence of zombies within our culture and the reasons for it Introduces a novel historical materialist approach to analyze the zombie phenomenon

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David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. David Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. David A. Reilly is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Niagara University, USA. John Edgar Browning is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhalt

Introduction: Our Zombies, Our Bodies; David R. Castillo and John Edgar Browning

Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth Through to the Postmillennium; John Edgar Browning
Zombie Masses: Monsters for the Age of Global Capitalism; David R. Castillo
The Coming Apocalypses of Zombies and Globalization; David A. Reilly
The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age; David Schmid
Afterword: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?; William Egginton