Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the
low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as
undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living
Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in
global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows
in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to
low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie's
ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties-ecological
disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism-has
ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has
precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship.
Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the
humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics,
computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory
collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around
the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural
figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the
belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the
effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and
oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not
simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for
theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological
approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead
reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other.
Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of
Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George
Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U;
Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut;
Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock
U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann,
Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka
McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tayla
Nyong'o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne
State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South
Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of
California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern
Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock,
Central Michigan U.
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