Zombies

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dc.contributor.authorRutherford, J.
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractNot so long ago zombies rarely shuffled out of B-grade horror movies and cult comic books, but today they are everywhere. Zombies are proliferating, demonstrating an extraordinary capacity to transport fluidly from genre to genre, from the apocalyptic future to the already survived past, and in and out of fictional form.　Today they can be found in just about any genre or discourse and as they move sinuously across the cultural landscape they keep morphing; taking on ever new and ever more bizarre associations. Zombies would appear to be unthinkable, the ultimate nightmare of a world devoured by the dead, and yet more and more often this horror-scape provides a form of figurative capture for the way things are. This book explores why. Zombies explores the recent transformation of zombie from cult genre to a figure that pervades western culture. Rutherford examines the zombie as a powerful metaphor for a constellation of social forces that define contemporary reality. This is an ideal introduction to all that is social about zombies, for students and general readers alike.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityJennifer Rutherford
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780203101841
dc.identifier.isbn0203101847
dc.identifier.isbn9780415524476
dc.identifier.orcidRutherford, J. [0000-0002-0894-436X]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/109786
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofseriesShortcuts
dc.rights© 2013 Jennifer Rutherford
dc.source.urihttp://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203101841
dc.subjectZombies
dc.titleZombies
dc.typeBook
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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