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" Zombies / "
Jennifer Rutherford
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BL
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583195
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GBB317156b412414
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| Main Entry
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Rutherford, Jennifer
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| Title & Author
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Zombies /\ Jennifer Rutherford
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| Series Statement
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Shortcuts
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xii, 111 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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9780415524476 (hbk)
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: 0415524474 (hbk)
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: 9780415524483 (pbk)
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: 0415524482 (pbk)
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9780203101841 (ebk)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index
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| Contents
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Monstration -- Collective zombie -- Zombie erotics -- Zombie opera -- Carrion dreams
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| Abstract
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"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 the recent transformation of zombie from cult genre to a figure that pervades western culture. The author examines the zombie as a powerful metaphor for a constellation of social forces that define contemporary reality. This is an introduction to all that is social about zombies." -- From back cover
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Zombies
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| Dewey Classification
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398/.45
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GR581.R87 2013
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GR581.R87 2013
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