The year's work at the Zombie Research Center
By: edited by Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe
Series: The year's work: studies in fan culture and cultural theory
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780253013873; 9780253013828
Subjects: Congresses; Zombies
Description: "They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society's fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more disturbing work. They exhume zombie theory and decaying historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie culture today lives in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde--and is often just as violent."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Most of the essays were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Louisville in 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-506) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Zombie Research Center FAQ  -- Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe; title: Zombie psychology  -- Stephen Watt; title: Zombie demographics  -- Aaron Jaffe; title: Zombie spaces  -- Dan Hassler-Forest; title: Zombie media  -- Erik Bohman; title: Zombie health care  -- Stephen Shapiro; title: Zombie physiology  -- Jack Raglin; title: Zombie performance  -- Atia Sattar; title: Zombie race  -- Edward P. Comentale; title: Zombie politics  -- Seth Morton; title: Zombie postfeminism  -- Andrea Ruthven; title: Zombie linguistics  -- Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe; title: Zombie arts and letters  -- Jonathan P. Eburne; title: Zombie philosophy  -- John Gibson; title: Zombie cocktails  -- Stephen Schneider; title: Afterword: zombie archive -- Jeffrey T. Nealon.