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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010

Author : Peter Dendle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147669138X

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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010 by Peter Dendle Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia

Author : Peter Dendle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Zombie films
ISBN : OCLC:883218298

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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle Pdf

Annotation. This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. The compendium serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor volume (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the end of the 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010

Author : Peter Dendle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786492886

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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010 by Peter Dendle Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.

Horror Films of 2000-2009

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476644509

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Horror Films of 2000-2009 by John Kenneth Muir Pdf

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These social and political changes, as well as the influences of Japanese horror and New French extremism, had a profound effect on American horror filmmaking during the 2000s. This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released in America from 2000 through 2009, including such popular forms as found footage, torture porn, and remakes. Each entry covers a single film and includes credits, a synopsis, and a lengthy critical commentary. The appendices include common horror conventions, a performer hall of fame, and memorable ad lines.

Diseased Cinema

Author : Robert Alpert,Merle Eisenberg,Lee Mordechai
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781399521673

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Diseased Cinema by Robert Alpert,Merle Eisenberg,Lee Mordechai Pdf

Discusses how the depiction of diseases in movies has changed over the last century and what these changes reveal about American culture Examines disease movies as a genre that has emerged over the last century and includes pandemic and zombie films Reveals the changes to the genre’s narratives over three broad time periods: the beginning of film through the 1980s, the 1990s through the mid-2000s, and the late 2000s and afterward Investigates the evolution of disease movies through three perspectives: historically notable films, remakes, and franchises Analyses disease movies in the context of the development of American, global capitalism and the fragmentation of the social contract Explains the role of disease movie narratives in the American experience of Covid American movies about infectious diseases have reflected and driven dominant cultural narratives during the past century. These movies – both real pandemics and imagined zombie outbreaks – have become wildly popular since the beginning of the 21st century. They have shifted from featuring a contained outbreak to an imagined containment of a known disease to a globalized, uncontainable pandemic of an unknown origin. Movie narratives have changed from identifying and solving social problems to a despair and acceptance of America’s failure to fulfil its historic social contract. Movies reflect and drive developments in American capitalism that increasingly advocates for individuals and their families, rather than communities and the public good. Disease movies today minimize human differences and envisage a utopian new world order to advance the needs of contemporary American capitalism. These movie narratives shaped reactions to the outbreak of Covid and reinforced individual responsibility as the solution to end the pandemic.

Romancing the Zombie

Author : Ashley Szanter,Jessica K. Richards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667423

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Romancing the Zombie by Ashley Szanter,Jessica K. Richards Pdf

The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristics transform. This collection of new essays examines the latest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The authors discuss our increasingly sympathetic view of the reanimated dead as more than physical bodies devoid of life and personality. Their essays cover a range of topics, including audience obsession with Apocalyptic love; the problem of a kinder, gentler undead; the millennial reinvention of the "sexy zombie"; and "uncanny valley romance."

Faith and the Zombie

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680538

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Faith and the Zombie by Simon Bacon Pdf

Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns.This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.

Reading the Great American Zombie

Author : T. May Stone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476648262

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Reading the Great American Zombie by T. May Stone Pdf

Challenging the human understanding of life and death, the zombie figure represents a fragmentation of personhood. From its earliest appearances in literature, the zombie characterized a human being that was no longer an indivisible whole, embodying the ontological debate over which elements of personhood are most uniquely human. Through its literary evolution, the zombie's missing element gradually approached a finer definition, as narratives moved beyond highlighting metaphysically opaque concepts like "soul" or "will." Studying over a century of American literary history, this book explores how zombies translate cultural concepts and definitions of personhood. Chapters detail how literary zombies have long presented narratives of American cultural self-examination.

The Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie

Author : William Shakespeare,Chase Pielak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476671154

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The Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie by William Shakespeare,Chase Pielak Pdf

What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into "zonnets") in their horrifying glory, highlighting transcendent themes of love, death, beauty and feasting on the flesh of the living. Each sonnet portrays a zombie encounter, with accompanying vignettes revealing the struggles of undead life in early modern England. Original illustrations by Anna Pagnucci bring the nightmare to life. Shakespeare will never be the same.

Dharma of the Dead

Author : Christopher M. Moreman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476672496

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Dharma of the Dead by Christopher M. Moreman Pdf

With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what has been described as America's "death-denying culture." The existential crisis in zombie apocalyptic fiction brings to the fore the problem of humanity's search for meaning in an increasingly global and secular world. Zombies are analyzed in the context of Buddhist thought, in contrast with social and religious critiques from other works. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {color: #212121}

Living with Zombies

Author : Chase Pielak,Alexander H. Cohen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476665849

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Living with Zombies by Chase Pielak,Alexander H. Cohen Pdf

Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.

...But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur

Author : Amy L. Thompson,Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476620909

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...But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur by Amy L. Thompson,Antonio S. Thompson Pdf

Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is rooted in modern literature, film and mythology. This collection of new essays considers the implications of this scientifically impossible (but perhaps imminent) event, examining real-world responses to pandemic contagion and civic chaos, as well as those from Hollywood and popular culture. The contributors discuss the zombie apocalypse as a metaphor for actual catastrophes and estimate the probabilities of human survival and behavior during an undead invasion.

Dead, White and Blue

Author : Aaron W Clayton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650272

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Dead, White and Blue by Aaron W Clayton Pdf

Science fiction and horror television shows predict how the world might be different if zombies were real, or if artificial intelligence could develop consciousness. Pop culture critics reveal that these not-quite humans are often proxies for race, and the post-apocalyptic landscapes set the stage for reimagining social and political institutions. This book advances horror scholarship by placing those stories within a long tradition of mythologizing U.S. history. It demonstrates how Disney's Zombies reenacts the civil rights movement, how The Walking Dead fulfills Thoreau's fantasy against the backdrop of founding a new nation, and how Westworld permits visitors to experience the Old West while bearing witness to Indian Removal. Each of these narratives imagines a future that retells the past. The chapters within look at that tradition in order to understand the present.

How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture

Author : Kyle William Bishop
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786495412

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How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture by Kyle William Bishop Pdf

Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and astronomy. They are powerful, multifarious metaphors representing fears of contagion and doom but also isolation and abandonment, as well as troubling aspects of human cruelty, public spectacle and abusive relationships. This critical examination of the 21st-century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde.

Zombies and Sexuality

Author : Shaka McGlotten,Steve Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786479078

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Zombies and Sexuality by Shaka McGlotten,Steve Jones Pdf

Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of our sexual behaviors. However, the notion of zombie sex has been largely unaddressed in scholarship. This collection addresses that unexamined aspect of zombiedom, with essays engaging a variety of media texts, including graphic novels, films, television, pornography, literature, and internet meme culture. The essayists are scholars from a variety of disciplines, including history, theology, film studies, and gender and queer studies. Covering The Walking Dead, Warm Bodies, and Bruce LaBruce's zombie-porn movies, this work investigates the cultural, political and philosophical issues raised by undead sex and zombie sexuality.