The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on deep analytical engagement with diverse kinds of texts, Better Off Dead addresses some of the more unlikely venues where zombies are found while providing the reader with a classic overview of the zombie's folkloric and cinematic history.What has the zombie metaphor meant in the past? Why does it continue to be so prevalent in our culture? Where others have looked at the zombie as an allegory for humanity's inner machinations or claimed the zombie as capitalist critique, this collection seeks to provide an archaeology of the zombie-tracing its lineage from Haiti, mapping its various cultural transformations, and suggesting the post-humanist direction in which the zombie is ultimately heading.Approaching the zombie from many different points of view, the contributors look across history and across media. Though they represent various theoretical perspectives, the whole makes a cohesive argument: The zombie has not just evolved within narratives; it has evolved in a way that transforms narrative. This collectionannounces a new post-zombie, even before the boundaries of this rich and mysterious myth have been completely charted.
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Original and provocative essays that contribute significantly to the field of zombie studies.-Aviva Briefel
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Deborah Christie is an Assistant Professor at Colorado Technical University.
Sarah Juliet Lauro is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Davis.
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By Lizzie Boredom
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I'd heard in passing about this book and looked it over at a conference last winter and flagged it mentally as something to check out; I'd recently asked my college freshmen to examine particular zombies or vampires as products of the age that produce them, and while I'd been able to direct some of the more ambitious among them to Nina Auerbach's _Our Vampires, Ourselves, I knew that I needed a similar book for zombies if I were to assign the topic again.
Then I went to another conference and heard this book lauded by a scholar whose work I very much admire and I was sold! I took my library's copy out of circulation for the summer and only returned it once I'd ordered my own. This book is an excellent read for anyone who likes zombies and their places in the world; while I recognize the scholarly excellence of the articles individually and the collection as a whole, it is equally accessible to a more general reader. Seriously, you can just pick this up and read an article while lounging on a beach or waiting for a flight--it's seriously delightful *and* instructive.
I learned a lot from this book and it really expanded my thinking about zombies and their places in their worlds and mine.
Then I went to another conference and heard this book lauded by a scholar whose work I very much admire and I was sold! I took my library's copy out of circulation for the summer and only returned it once I'd ordered my own. This book is an excellent read for anyone who likes zombies and their places in the world; while I recognize the scholarly excellence of the articles individually and the collection as a whole, it is equally accessible to a more general reader. Seriously, you can just pick this up and read an article while lounging on a beach or waiting for a flight--it's seriously delightful *and* instructive.
I learned a lot from this book and it really expanded my thinking about zombies and their places in their worlds and mine.
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A great collection, a little more pop than I wanted, but really interesting. I do like that the authors go back to the Haitian origins of zombies, and show how different contemporary north American zombies are in comparison
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