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"We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human

Title
  1. "We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human / edited by Dawn Keetley.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

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Additional authors
  1. Keetley, Dawn, 1965-
Description
  1. viii, 245 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Walking dead (Television program)
  2. Zombie television programs > History and criticism
  3. Horror television programs > History and criticism
Contents
  1. 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
  1. MWGT 14-2689
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
Title
  1. "We're all infected" : essays on AMC's The walking dead and the fate of the human / edited by Dawn Keetley.
Publisher
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
Added author
  1. Keetley, Dawn, 1965- editor.
LCCN
  1. 2013050953
ISBN
  1. 9780786476282 (softcover : alk. paper)
  2. 0786476281 (softcover : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. MWGT 14-2689
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