Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human (USED)

Description: Product Description : Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture from comic books to video games to internet applications and homemade films zombies are all around us Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on deep analytical engagement with diverse kinds of texts Better Off Dead addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found while providing the reader with a classic overview of the zombies folkloric and cinematic historyWhat has the zombie metaphor meant in the past Why does it continue to be so prevalent in our culture Where others have looked at the zombie as an allegory for humanitys inner machinations or claimed the zombie as capitalist critique this collection seeks to provide an archaeology of the zombietracing its lineage from Haiti mapping its various cultural transformations and suggesting the posthumanist direction in which the zombie is ultimately headingApproaching the zombie from many different points of view the contributors look across history and across media Though they represent various theoretical perspectives the whole makes a cohesive argument The zombie has not just evolved within narratives it has evolved in a way that transforms narrative This collectionannounces a new postzombie even before the boundaries of this rich and mysterious myth have been completely charted( it is an used product )

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Location: Houston, Texas

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