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"The Unknown Painter" is an antislavery short story that first appeared in the mid-1830s. Its author, original place of publication, and date remain undetermined. It concerns the Spanish artist Bartoleme Esteban Murillo and his black... more
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      Translation StudiesSlaveryShort story (Literature)Translation and literature
مطمعن نیستم که موجودات نامیرا وجود داشته باشند. و همچنین فکر می‌کنم این موضوع محل بحث و پرسش است که آیا امکان دارد کسی مانند آدم‌هایِ بد یا قاتلینِ سریالیِ درون فیلم‌های ترسناک فرا-طبیعی شرور باشد یا خیر. با این حال معتقدم این مسأله که... more
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      PhilosophyOntologyPop Culture and philosophyPopular Culture
A speculative examination of some manifestations of contemporary Horror through the lens of the Zombie; this article considers the relationship between Zombie Apocalypses, Zombies as agents (or not), and wider aspects of genre and theory... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesMedia StudiesMedia and Cultural Studies
This chapter offers a critical analysis of the burgeoning cottage industry of cyber- and actual Toraja zombie tourism. Various studies have chronicled tourists’ fascination with cadavers, and with touring the purported haunts of the... more
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      Cultural StudiesTourism StudiesAnthropology of TourismMedia and Cultural Studies
The Author would like to point out Jacques Derrida's concept of hauntology which perfectly describes the experience of literature and contemporary world as haunted. Therefore, he follows closely the psychoanalytical concepts of phantom... more
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      PhilosophyHumanitiesDeathDeath Studies
Traduction japonaise de la conférence : REVITALISER LE CADRE COMME ON PEUT. À PROPOS DE LA FIGURE DU ZOMBIE DANS LE CINÉMA JAPONAIS CONTEMPORAIN. Donnée à l'université TMU (Tokyo Metropolitan University) en décembre 2018. Traduction... more
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      Japanese CinemaContemporary Japanese CinemaZombie StudiesJapanese Horror Cinema
This is the first of a series of articles that aims to study the history and psychological significance of the “myth of the zombie” through the analysis of its allegorical and symbolic elements, based on a myth’s conceptualization... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesLiteratureJungian psychology
In this essay, focusing primarily on the cinema of the walking corpse, I provide an overview of zombie studies and suggest potential avenues for sociological inquiry into zombie phenomena. I argue that zombie films, comic books, novels,... more
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      Cultural StudiesSociology of CultureMedia and Cultural StudiesCultural Sociology
Dawn of the Dead is one of the most successful independent films to be made, balancing budget and income, and it frequently appears on lists of Top Horror Films. Without a doubt, Dawn is also the forerunner of today’s popular... more
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      Horror FilmHorror CinemaWomen in Horror FilmsZombie Films
This article discusses a series of performative walks made in terrains suggestive of the fictional landscapes of living dead cinema and literature. Drawing on the idea that the living dead sub-genre provides the dominant vision of... more
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      Zombie FilmsZombiesZombie CapitalismZombie
El estímulo inicial del artículo surgió en situación didáctica: leyendo el poema "La aurora" en una clase de Literatura Española en la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo emergió la idea de recurrir a los zombis para hacer ver a los estudiantes... more
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      Comparative LiteratureLiteratureSocial RepresentationsStereotypes
A thesis presented on the history and rise of the “literary” zombie narrative. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how contemporary governmental crises and cultural anxieties are mirrored in Max Brooks’ World War Z and Colson... more
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      MarxismApocalypticism In LiteratureFreudian Literary TheoryUnheimlich
This keynote extends on my previous publications on Queer Zombies (Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins (IB Tauris, 2016); Screening the Undead (IB Tauris, 2014); Zombies and Sexuality (MacFarland,... more
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      Queer StudiesHorror FilmQueer HorrorZombie Films
Deadgirl (2008) is based around a group of male teens discovering and claiming ownership of a bound female zombie, using her as a sex slave. This narrative premise raises numerous tensions that are particularly amplified by using a zombie... more
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      Gender StudiesSex and GenderFeminist TheoryFilm Studies
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      Film StudiesFilm AnalysisHorror FilmGothic Fiction and the horror film
A lethal infectious disease is among us. Alarmingly, the disease burden's distribution is strikingly unequal. White subjects have a far greater viral load, particularly because of noncompliance with public health guidelines. Yet the virus... more
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      Infectious disease epidemiologyLanguages and LinguisticsDiversityLinguistic Anthropology
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      Horror FilmParodyZombie FilmsFilm and Television Comedy
Extensive collection of scholarly research on zombies in popular culture. • Updated: 14 September 2016 • BibTeX: <http://www.zybura.de/ZombieStudiesBibliography.bib>. Most up-to-date online version:... more
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      Cultural StudiesPopular CultureContemporary Gothic FictionZombies
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesGender StudiesVisual Studies
George Andrew Romero died on 16 July, 2017 at the age of 77. This retrospective treats all sixteen of the films Romero directed, with a mention of those he scripted. The critical perspectives here vary from the personal to the... more
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      Horror FilmHorror CinemaWomen in Horror FilmsZombie Films
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980) may have featured both animated corpses and hardcore sex scenes, but only recently have Re-Penetrator (2004) and Porn of the Dead (2006) managed to fully eroticise the living dead, allowing these... more
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      HistoryGender StudiesSex and GenderFeminist Theory
What do you do when the zombies come? Or the contagion infected populace is closing in on you and your family? Or even once-friendly neighbors who want to take what meager food and possessions you own now that the apocalypse has occurred... more
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      Science EducationZombie StudiesSTUDY OF FIREARMS
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      Zombie FilmsZombiesRepresentation of the EnemyThe Walking Dead
Drawing on the well-established understanding of the zombie as metaphor for the deadening effects of consumer capitalism, this chapter seeks to account for three distinct changes that contextualise 21st century zombie fiction. The first... more
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      EconomicsSex and GenderFilm StudiesFilm Theory
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      Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion)Eschatology and ApocalypticismSecond Temple JudaismApocalypticism In Literature
This article suggests a new reading of Romero’s second zombie film, Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a zombie-infested mall. The established literature on the film has largely focused on Romero’s overt critique of consumerism. The... more
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      Film HistoryFilm and HistoryZombie FilmsZombies
This is the third of a series of articles that aims to study the history and psychological significance of the birth of the «myth of the zombie» through the analysis of its allegorical and symbolic elements. Here, we will research into... more
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      Cultural StudiesAlchemyJungian psychologyHorror Film
Este Abecedario Zombi no es un libro. Es un cementerio, y no el de la paz perpetua. Vivimos en la era de la putrefacción: de la política, de los derechos, del medio ambiente... Es cierto que, antes de la catástrofe en la que ahora... more
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      CapitalismBiopoliticsZombie FilmsFilosofía Política
Editors Szanter and Richards seek original essays for an edited collection on romance in the zombie genre. This collection is under contract with McFarland Publishers. The 21st century has seen a greater willingness to portray the undead... more
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      Film StudiesFilm TheoryTelevision StudiesFilm Analysis
W ostatnich latach można zauważyć znaczny wzrost popularności zombie w kulturze popularnej i mediach masowych; żywe trupy przeniosły się z ekranów kin do seriali telewizyjnych, pojawiły się w powieściach, i rozprzestrzeniły w grach... more
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      Game studiesPopular CultureVideo GamesGames
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      Queer StudiesSex and GenderPolitical TheoryItalian Studies
In recent years, many international relations scholars have enthusiastically embraced work from popular culture as teaching tools, or as novel means to explore IR theory. Scholars have produced numerous journal articles, book chapters,... more
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      Critical TheoryComedyTeaching with FilmZombie Films
Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities... more
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      Spanish LiteraturePolitical SciencePsychopathologyZombies
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      Cultural StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesFilm StudiesItalian Studies
In Ireland, generic international cinematic forms have provided an important means through which filmmakers have attempted to tell Irish stories while engaging international audiences. However, in general Irish filmmakers have been less... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreCultural StudiesSociology of SportIrish Studies
The zombie is a new myth which appeared in Western imaginary in the twentieth century and which gradually evolved into its present-day version: the apocalyptic zombie. This work aims to review the zombie myth’s evolution and to offer some... more
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      Comparative LiteratureMythologyRhetoricPopular Culture
pp. 173-204 This chapter contributes innovative frameworks to the field of Zombie Studies through a comparison of Alejo Carpentier’s 1949 novel The Kingdom of This World and Brian Moore’s 1993 novel No Other Life: both fictionalized... more
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      Irish LiteratureLatin American literaturePostcolonial LiteratureAlejo Carpentier
This paper suggests that reference to phenomenal qualities is best understood as involving iconicity, that is, a passage from sign-vehicle to object that exploits a similarity between the two. This contrasts with a version of the... more
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      SemioticsLanguagesNeuroscienceCultural Studies
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      Cultural StudiesVisual StudiesArt HistoryArt Theory
El zombi, al igual que ocurre con otras criaturas propias del cine de terror, goza de una capacidad metafórica excepcional, capacidad que es utilizada por los cineastas como método por el cual reflexionar y elaborar una crítica en torno a... more
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      MetaphorCinemaZombie FilmsCinematography
This paper describes the assembling of a taxonomy of 'zombie space', consisting of categories of fictional urban space drawn from zombie films and other expressions of a living dead 'mythos', and presents a provisional set of these... more
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      Human GeographyUrban GeographyFilm StudiesFilm Analysis
In 1232, Thomas of Cantimpré wrote his Life of Christina Mirabilis (a. 1150-1224), an account of the miraculous life and three deaths of an unenclosed holy woman from the Low Countries. The text opens with an explicit vindication of... more
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      HagiographyWomen's HistoryMedieval Low CountriesZombie Films
A presente pesquisa teve como objeto empírico a minissérie "Amorteamo" (Rede Globo, 2015), uma obra que mostra aborda como as disputas românticas entre dois triângulos amorosos que provocam, de maneira insólita, a volta dos mortos-vivos... more
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      Cultural StudiesLatin American StudiesTelevision StudiesBrazilian Studies
This chapter considers the continued critical import of Heidegger’s notion of equipmentality in grappling with contemporary currents and problems within the mediatory or, as I prefer to term it, the immediatory sphere. Within Heidegger’s... more
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      Martin HeideggerJacques DerridaHeideggerJakob von Uexküll
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      Theatre StudiesTheatre HistoryTheatre TheoryTheatre
In The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie, ed. by Kyle William Bishop and Angela Tenga (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2017): 133-44
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      ApocalypticismApocalypticism In LiteratureZombie FilmsHorror Literature
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      Sex and GenderGame DesignSexDigital Games
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      Television StudiesPopular CultureComics StudiesRace and Ethnicity