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"We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human
- Title
- "We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human / edited by Dawn Keetley.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Keetley, Dawn, 1965-
- Description
- viii, 245 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13 original scholarly essays on AMC's The Walking Dead. The first group of essays addresses the pervasive bloodletting of the series: What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence? The second half of the collection explores an equally urgent question: What does it mean to be human?"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Contents
- The zombie apocalypse is upon us! Homeland insecurity / Philip L. Simpson -- Burying the living with the dead: security, survival and the sanction of violence / Steven Pokornowski -- Walking tall or walking dead? The American cowboy in the zombie apocalypse / P. Ivan Young -- Asserting law and order over the mindless / Angus Nurse -- Rest in pieces: violence in mourning the (un)dead / Laura Kremmel -- Roadside "vigil" for the dead: cannibalism, fossil fuels and the American dream / Christine Heckman -- Mass shock therapy for Atlanta's psych(ot)ic suburban legacy / Paul Boshears -- Apocalyptic utopia: the zombie and the (r)evolution of subjectivity / Chris Boehm -- Nothing but the meat: posthuman bodies and the dying undead / Xavier Aldana Reyes -- Human choice and zombie consciousness / Dawn Keetley -- "Talking bodies" in a zombie apocalypse: from the discursive to the shitty sublime / Gary Farnell -- Zombie time: temporality and living death / Gwyneth Peaty -- Afterword: by-gone days: reflections on Romero, Kirkman and what we become / Dave Beisecker.
- Call Number
- MWGT 14-2689
- ISBN
- 9780786476282 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786476281 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013050953
- OCLC
- 859385023
- Title
- "We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human / edited by Dawn Keetley.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Added Author
- Keetley, Dawn, 1965- editor.
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 14-2689