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The Undead in the 21st Century - A Companion (Paperback, New edition)
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The Undead in the 21st Century - A Companion (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Genre Fiction and Film Companions, 10
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«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon
Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead»
generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with
the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the
gothic. With each chapter, the book unpacks the dense implications
of its key concept, as it explores what it means to be undead, to
determine who is and who isn’t, and how this matters. The book
earns its rewards as a «Companion» in the true sense of the term
since it is sure to accompany many curious and critical journeys
through undead twenty-first-century culture.» (Professor Steffen
Hantke, Sogang University, Seoul, author of Monsters in the
Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America
after World War II) Who are the Undead? 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 not only 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.
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Imprint: |
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Genre Fiction and Film Companions, 10 |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Editors: |
Simon Bacon
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
324 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78997-736-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78997-736-3 |
Barcode: |
9781789977363 |
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