The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-14
An Infected Population: Zombie Culture and the Modern Monstrous....Pages 15-25
‘I always wanted to see how the other half lives’: The Contemporary Zombie as Seductive Proselyte....Pages 26-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Archiving Gore: Who Owns Zombie Flesh Eaters?....Pages 41-55
Consumerism and the Undead City: The Silent Hill and Resident Evil Films....Pages 56-69
The Undead Down Under....Pages 70-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Rocking with the Undead: How Zombies Infected the Psychobilly Subculture....Pages 91-106
A Utilitarian Antagonist: The Zombie in Popular Video Games....Pages 107-123
Zombies and the Sociological Imagination: The Walking Dead as Social-Science Fiction....Pages 124-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and YouTube....Pages 141-159
Zombies, Zomedies, Digital Fan Cultures and the Politics of Taste....Pages 160-173
Zombie Culture: Dissent, Celebration and the Carnivalesque in Social Spaces....Pages 174-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
The Galvanic ‘Unhuman’: Technology, the Living Dead and the ‘Animal-Machine’ in Literature and Culture....Pages 193-207
Zombies, a Lost Literary Heritage and the Return of the Repressed....Pages 208-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-226