Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture

Introduction

SECTION ONE: ZOMBIE NORMALS

Part I: Patient Zero: The Zombie Society

Katarzyna Ancuta
J is for Jombi: The Social Concerns of Korean Zombies

Debaditya Mukhopadhyay
Eat or be Eaten: a Socio-Political Reading of the Zombies of Ghost Stories

Carl Wilson
The Future of Resident Evil Video Games: Remakes, Revivals, and the RE Engine

Part II: The Contagion of Consumerism and Neoliberalism

Alberto Anon Lara
Kingdom and the Rise of the Zombie in South Korean Television Fiction

Tom Ue
Rage, Revenge, and Redress in Andre Ovredal's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Dave Jeffery
'Consumerism will eat the future' :Consumerism During and After the Apocalypse in Army of the Dead (2021) and Necropolis Rising (2010-17)

Part III: Disability and the Mental Health Pandemic

David Edwards
Zombies and Mental Health: Place, Space and the Post-Millennial Apocalypse

Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Fear and Loathing: Mental Illness and the Othering of the Zombie

Catherine Pugh
'Say Something Human': Identity, Disability and the Self-Aware Zombie

SECTION TWO: NEW ZOMBIE NORMALS

Part IV: Gender, Sexuality, and the Zombie

Eoin Murray
Body and Soul: A Trans-Reading of Resident Evil: Code Veronica's Alfred Ashford

Martine Mussies
Zombie Mermaids: 'The Lake of Mystery' (Tooba 2023)

Renita Soerensdotter
Women and Girls as Survivors in Zombie Films: How Gender, Race and Age Matters for Shaping the Hope for a Better World

Part V: Eco-zombies and the Environmental Pandemic

Beth Michael-Fox
The Future is Ash: Climate Crisis and Human Responsibility in The Fades

Daniel Otto Jack Peterson
A Blackfeet Biology of Postapocalypse: Tracking Ecomonstrous Transmotion in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham Jones

Teresa Fitzpatrick
Fungal Futures: Eco-Zombies in the 21st Century

John R. Ziegler
The Posthuman Eco-Zombie and the End of the Capitalocene in Endzeit [Ever After](Hellsgard: 2018)

Part VI: Beyond the Pandemic, New Normals and New Normatives

Ildiko Limpar
Matters of the Heart When the Brain is Attacked: Zombification and Its Consequences in HBO's The Last of Us

Sharon Coleclough
'A chance to give your life purpose and meaning': The Evolution and Testing of the Future Zombie in Star Trek: Picard

Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy Karpouzou
The Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum's Dawn of Zombie Haiku

Index

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• Monstros e seres lendários
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Filme: estilos e gêneros
• TV Filme, e rádio

COVID-19, ecological crisis, horror studies, mental health, pandemic, popular culture, posthumanism, the undead, video games, zombie narratives, Zombie studies, Zombies