"We're all infected"
Subtitle: essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human
By: edited by Dawn Keetley
Series: Contributions to Zombie studies; Contributions to zombie studies
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780786476282
Subjects: Walking dead (Television program)
Description: "This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13 original scholarly essays on AMC's The Walking Dead. The first group of essays addresses the pervasive bloodletting of the series: What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence? The second half of the collection explores an equally urgent question: What does it mean to be human?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The zombie apocalypse is upon us! Homeland insecurity / Philip L. Simpson; title: Burying the living with the dead: security, survival and the sanction of violence / Steven Pokornowski; title: Walking tall or walking dead? The American cowboy in the zombie apocalypse / P. Ivan Young; title: Asserting law and order over the mindless / Angus Nurse; title: Rest in pieces: violence in mourning the (un)dead / Laura Kremmel; title: Roadside "vigil" for the dead: cannibalism, fossil fuels and the American dream / Christine Heckman; title: Mass shock therapy for Atlanta's psych(ot)ic suburban legacy / Paul Boshears; title: Apocalyptic utopia: the zombie and the (r)evolution of subjectivity / Chris Boehm; title: Nothing but the meat: posthuman bodies and the dying undead / Xavier Aldana Reyes; title: Human choice and zombie consciousness / Dawn Keetley; title: "Talking bodies" in a zombie apocalypse: from the discursive to the shitty sublime / Gary Farnell; title: Zombie time: temporality and living death / Gwyneth Peaty; title: Afterword: by-gone days: reflections on Romero, Kirkman and what we become / Dave Beisecker.