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"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?"--
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"We're all infected": essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human
2014, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English
0786476281 9780786476282
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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