Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture (Contributions to Zombie Studies)

"demonstrates that zombies, as a field, has the heft to sustain serious academic inquiry...contributes to the field because it links zombies to some of the foundational questions of modernity and specifically the instability of many modernity's assumptions...a fun and engaging critical field to a casual reader or students of cultural studies...many of these essays make important claims...Zombie experts should take note.... most interesting...This collection provides a range of exciting lines of flight and ample evidence that zombies are, and have long been, an important trope in the articulation of anxieties related to our globalist future."-Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "zombies have come to stand for everything from conformity and consumerism to dangerous science and the military industrial complex... fertile ground here for those of us who like to deconstruct pop-culture and seek out all the hidden undercurrents...extremely literary essays that investigate a series of thought provoking topics...very interesting...fascinating...extremely engaging and thought provoking"-Bricks of the Dead "collects some academic perspectives on z-horror, including zombie origins, environmental contagion, living-dead crowd psychology, and zombies on campus"-C&RL News "presents 16 essays that examine the zombie's evolution, continually evolving manifestations in popular culture and effects on modernity. Topics include the zombie in film, zombie as environmental critique and issues of race, class and gender"-CBQ.