Zombie Theory: A Reader by Sarah Juliet Lauro (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Zombie Theory by Sarah Juliet Lauro Assembling the bestinternational, interdisciplinary zombie scholarship, this collection considerswhat the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to eachother. Essays portray zombies not as a singular cultural figure but asrepresentative of larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagionand technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusionand oppression, dehumanization. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. Table of Contents ContentsIntroduction: Wander and Wonder in ZombielandSarah Juliet LauroPart I. Old Schools: Classic Zombies1. Contagious Allegories: George RomeroSteven Shaviro2. Zombie TV: Late-Night B Movie Horror FestJeffrey Andrew Weinstock3. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold WarPriscilla Wald4. Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of ZombiesElizabeth McAlister5. Slavoj iek, the Death Drive, and Zombies: A Theological AccountOla SigurdsonPart II. Capitalist Monsters6. Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as TropeJen Webb and Samuel Byrnand7. Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of UtopiaDavid McNally8. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial CapitalismJean Comaroff and John Comaroff9. Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Consumption of the SelfLars Bang Larsen10. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and ZombiesSherryl VintPart III. Zombies and Other(ed) People11. Zombie RaceEdward P. Comentale12. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror FilmBarry Keith Grant13. Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online SocialityShaka McGlotten14. Dead and Disabled: The Crawling Monsters of The Walking DeadAnna Mae Duane 15. Trouble with Zombies: Muselmänner, Bare Life, and Displaced PeopleJon StrattonPart IV. Zombies in the StreetPreface: In Memoriam: The Toronto Zombie Walk (2003–2015)Sarah Juliet Lauro16. Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World OrderFred Botting17. Spooks of Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie WalksSimon Orpana18. The Scene of OccupationTavia Nyongo19. The Walking Dead and Killing State: Zombification and the Normalization of Police ViolenceTravis Linnemann, Tyler Wall, and Edward GreenPart V. New Life for the Undead20. Nekros: or, The Poetics of Biopolitics Eugene Thacker21. Grey: A Zombie EcologyJeffrey Jerome Cohen22. A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced CapitalismSarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry23. "We Arethe Walking Dead": Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie NarrativeGerry CanavanAcknowledgmentsContributorsPrevious PublicationsFurther ReadingIndex Long Description Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romeros The Night of the Living Dead 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 zombies 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. Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects 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, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other. Contributors: 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 Colle≥ 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 Nyongo, 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. Details ISBN1517900905 Author Sarah Juliet Lauro Pages 531 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1517900905 ISBN-13 9781517900908 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2017-10-15 Short Title Zombie Theory Language English Subtitle A Reader UK Release Date 2017-10-15 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Place of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States Illustrations 58 NZ Release Date 2017-10-15 US Release Date 2017-10-15 Publisher University of Minnesota Press Alternative 9781517900915 Edited by Sarah Juliet Lauro DEWEY 398.21 Audience General AU Release Date 2018-01-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161854281;

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