The undead in the 21st century : a companion / edited by Simon Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacon, Simon, 1965- editor.

Series:

Genre fiction and film companions ; 10.

Genre fiction and film companions, 2631-8725 ; volume no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zombies in motion pictures.

Zombies in literature.

Zombies in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xvi, 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Undead in the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2022.

Summary:

"The twenty-first century is truly the age of the undead. They are no longer just vampires or zombies, but every kind of monster that can be imagined. More so, they no longer live in the alien terrain of our imaginations or nightmares but are embedded into the very nature of our existence in the neverending catastrophe of the 2000s. Featuring leading scholars such as David Punter, Roger Luckhurst, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Lorna Piatti-Farnell amongst many others, the 30 original essays in The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion describe and explain how the various fears and anxieties we have around such things as contagion, the environment, geopolitics and even ageing give form to the multifarious undead that plague our existence and seem bent on our destruction. However, as shall be argued here, if we can recognise and understand the undead they might not be the end of humanity as we know it, but possibly a way to exist beyond it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Undead Cultures in the Global Present

Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2.018) - Folk Horror and the Undead / Mikel J. Koven

La Llorona (Various, 2.006-2019) - Mexican Undead / Cristina Santos

Go Goa Gone (Raj and D. K., 2013) - Bollywood Undead / Iain Robert Smith

Wakening (Danis Goulet, 2013) - Metis-Cree Undead / John R. Ziegler

Killer Native (Bjorn Stewart, 2019) - Australian Aboriginal Undead / Naomi Simone Borwein

Seoul Station (Sang-ho Yeon, 1016) - South Korean Undead / Katarzyna Ancuta

pt. II The Undead and Never-ending Present

The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, 2.018) - Domestic Undead / Dara Downey

The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) - Undead Classroom / Tyler Unsell

ZOMBIES 2 (Paul Hoen, 2020) - Anti-racist Undead / Antares Leask

Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Hard, 2008) - Undead Rape Culture / Natalie Wilson

The Nun (Corin Hardy, 2018) - Religious Undead / Brandon R. Grafius

Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019) - Medical Undead / Laura R. Kremmel

Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002) - Ageing and the Undead / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020) - Undead Heritage / Gina Wisker

pt. III Undying Identity

AHS: Hotel (Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, 2015-2016) and The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, 2014-2017) Undead Children / Leah Richards

Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018) - Undead Motherhood / Sara Williams

Game of Thrones (David Benioff, 2011-2019) - Undead Masculinity / Valerie Estelle Frankel

Dorohedoro (QHayashida, 2000-2018) - Transgender Undead / Madeleine Mackenzie

"The Zombie Mermaid' (Katelynn E. Koontz, 2018) - Undead Mermaids / Martine Mussies

Bloodthirsty (Amelia Moses, 2021) - Undead Celebrity / Gwyneth Peaty

Behemoth (Nergal and others, 1991-present) - Extreme Metal and the Undead / Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

pt. IV Undead Futures

Wicked Weeds (Pedro Cabiya, 2011 [trans. 2016]) - Meta Undead / Persephone Braham

Get Out (Jordan Peek, 2017) - The Undead and Afrofuturism / Nicola Young

Les Revenants (Fabrice Gobert, 2012-2015) - Environmental Undead / Mikaela Bobiy

Antisepticeye (Sean McLoughlin, 2016) - Online Undead / Catherine Pugh

Westworld (Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, 2016-present) - Posthuman Undead / Ildiko Limpar

Marvel Zombies (Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam, 2005-2006) - Undead Superheroes / Lorna Piatti-Farnell

The CloverfieldParadox (Julius Onah, 2018) - Universal Undead / Simon Bacon

Epilogue: The Death of Death - Zero K, Don DeLillo (2016) / Roger Luckhurst.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Undead in the 21st century

ISBN:

9781789977363

1789977363

OCLC:

1328142442

Publisher Number:

99993272522