Not 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.
Extracts from Zombies, were recently published in Australian
newspapers, The Age, The Canberra Times and the Sydney Morning
Herald. Available now to read online:
www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/dead-right-20130620-2olqr.html
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