Zombie Studies
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie, ed. by Kyle William Bishop and Angela Tenga (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2017): 133-44