The Anthropocene and the undead : cultural anxieties in the contemporary popular imagination / edited by Simon Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacon, Simon, 1965- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Lexington Books horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zombie films--History and criticism.

Zombie films.

Zombies in motion pictures.

Human ecology in motion pictures.

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Zombies in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Posthumanism in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Summary:

"This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I UNDEAD IDENTITY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

1. (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives / Kyle William Bishop

2. Undeath, Theatricality, and the Ecogothic in DC Moore's Common (2017) / Gheorghe Williams

3. Maggie in the Necrocene / Johan Hoglund

pt. II UNDEAD SPACES AND "ZONES" OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

4. The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories about the Undead under the Brightest of Lights / Nils Bubandt

5. Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012) / Steffen Hantke

6. A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation, and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The Bay (2012) / Rebecca Stone Gordon

pt. III THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE END OF "TIME"

7. "Dying All the Time": The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene / Elana Gomel

8. Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.

9. "To Remember Forever to Forget": Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene / Kristopher Woofter

pt. IV THE DISANTNROPOCENE: IS NOT ALL ABOUT US

10. "You're Next!": The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptations of "Who Goes There?" and The Body Snatchers / Andrew J. Wilson

11. Nonconsensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane / Sarah Lewison

12. Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations / Aaron Bradshaw

pt. V THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE, THE SYMBIOCENE, AND UNDEAD FUTURES

13. Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai's The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" / Conrad Scott

14. "Cause tonight is the night | When two become one": Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation, and the Abject / Daisy Butcher

15. After the End: Post-Anthropocene Future of Endzeit / Lars Schmeink.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Anthropocene and the undead

ISBN:

9781793625823

1793625824

OCLC:

1288193434