{"product_id":"zombie-theory-a-reader-hardback-9781517900908","title":"Zombie Theory; A Reader (Hardback) 9781517900908","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eZombie Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Juliet Lauro (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517900908\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e531 pages, 58\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm, 1.03 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film \u003ci\u003eWhite Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Living Dead\u003c\/i\u003e almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie’s ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties-ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism-has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. \u003ci\u003eZombie Theory \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, \u003ci\u003eZombie Theory\u003c\/i\u003e thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tayla Nyong’o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Wander and Wonder in Zombieland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Juliet Lauro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Old Schools: Classic Zombies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Contagious Allegories: George Romero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteven Shaviro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Zombie TV: Late-Night B Movie Horror Fest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePriscilla Wald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth McAlister\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Slavoj Žižek, the Death Drive, and Zombies: A Theological Account\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOla Sigurdson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Capitalist Monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJen Webb and Samuel Byrnand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid McNally\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean Comaroff and John Comaroff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Consumption of the Self\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLars Bang Larsen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Zombies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSherryl Vint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Zombies and Other(ed) People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Zombie Race\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward P. Comentale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Taking Back the \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Dead\u003c\/i\u003e: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Keith Grant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShaka McGlotten\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Dead \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Disabled: The Crawling Monsters of \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Mae Duane \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. Trouble with Zombies: \u003ci\u003eMuselmÄnner,\u003c\/i\u003e Bare Life, and Displaced People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJon Stratton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart IV. Zombies in the Street\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: In Memoriam: The Toronto Zombie Walk (2003–2015)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Juliet Lauro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFred Botting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. Spooks of Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Orpana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. The Scene of Occupation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTavia Nyong’o\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. The Walking Dead and Killing State: Zombification and the Normalization of Police Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravis Linnemann, Tyler Wall, and Edward Green\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart V. New Life for the Undead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. Nekros: or, The Poetics of Biopolitics \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21. Grey: A Zombie Ecology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Jerome Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22. A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23. “We \u003ci\u003eAre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe Walking Dead”: Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerry Canavan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrevious Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619240079640,"sku":"9781517900908","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/zombie-theory-a-reader-hardback-9781517900908","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}