Zombies in Western Culture

Zombies in Western Culture
Author: John Vervaeke
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178374331X

Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.

Zombies for Zombies

Zombies for Zombies
Author: David Murphy
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1402245432

So, you've been bitten by a zombie? Bummer. But there's no need to panic! Yes, your life will be undergoing a major transformation, but this doesn't have to be the end-all it once was when the Disaster first hit. There have been significant breakthroughs in the last decade in helping you keep significant parts of your wit and dignity. Together we can limit the damage. Zombies for Zombies is a motivational guide designed specifically to make a profound difference in your accidental, strange new life. You say you don't want to become another one of those ghastly creatures you see on the news out in the Tempe Containment Zone? You don't have to—if you follow the great advice inside, including: How to dress for your new lifestyle Handy recipes for brains Fitness ideas for keeping you somewhat energetic New skin-care techniques to help ward off "rotting flesh syndrome" How to overcome that darned zombie social stigma Dance steps for the motor-impaired Completely Revised and Updated Since the Containment Zone Disaster! "Face it, being bitten by a zombie is inevitable. Thanks to this indispensable book, we can finally stop making survival plans and start making the most of our new lives as zombies. Even for the uninfected, Zombies For Zombies is a scream." —Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
Author: Matt Mogk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1451641575

In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.

Disney Zombies: Welcome to Seabrook

Disney Zombies: Welcome to Seabrook
Author: Disney Books
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1368082106

Seabrook has a diverse population, including its award-winning cheerleaders, the zombies from neighboring Zombietown, and a pack of cool werewolves. So it should be no surprise when aliens arrive in Seabrook to compete in the World Cheer Off. This fun guidebook shares the history of Seabrook and how its residents came to call the town home. Revisit when zombies first came to Seabrook High; how Zed, the first zombie football player, took the team to the championships; and how Addison struggled to discover who she really is. Also included are photos and fun facts about each of Seabrook's most beloved residents. Of course, no book about Seabrook would be complete without reliving the romance of Zed and Addison, an unlikely couple who showed Seabrook that it's okay to be different! Complete your Disney Channel collection with these fan favorites: World of Reading: Zombies 2: Call to the Wild HSMTMTS Novelization: Season 1 Miss Jenn's High School Musical Script Book Gabby Duran Adventures in Alien Babysitting Descendants 3: Welcome to Auradon Big City Greens: Blood Moon The Owl House: Witches Before Wizards

Zombies!

Zombies!
Author: Jacobs Evan
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2014-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1645982408

Themes: Horror, Lying, Fiction, Tween, Emergent Reader, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. –Leo the Liar” is in big trouble now. Heês promised the toughest kid in school a photo of a real zombie. And he has to deliver. Now Leo knows there are no such things as zombies. But he wants to prove a point. Plus, he doesnêt like being called a liar. So he sneaks out late at night and finds more than he ever bargained for. Can he save himself and his family from a zombie swarm? This series of short novels was designed to engage a broad spectrum of struggling readers. No longer will upper-elementary students have to read material junior to their maturity and interests. Characters are age appropriate and come from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Science ficion, sports, paranormal, realistic life, historical fiction, and fantasy are just a few of the many genres. Books are no higher than a 1.5 reading level, with illustrations on every spread that support visual literacy and draw kids into the text. Each book is around 70 pages.

World of Reading, Level 2: Disney Zombies 2

World of Reading, Level 2: Disney Zombies 2
Author: Disney Books
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1368064906

Read along with Disney! Young readers can revisit the Disney Channel Original Movie Zombies 2 and the characters they love at an appropriate reading level. Return to Seabrook High follows the budding romance of Addison and Zed after a group of werewolves arrive in Seabrook.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Author: Steve Hockensmith
Publisher: Quirk Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594745021

Complete with romance, heartbreak, martial arts, cannibalism, and an army of shambling corpses, Dreadfully Ever After brings the story of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to a thrilling conclusion. When we last saw Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy—at the end of the New York Times best seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—they were preparing for a lifetime of wedded bliss. Yet the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the only acceptable course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she learns of a miracle antidote being developed in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love—and for everyone to live happily ever after.

Zombies

Zombies
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 178023564X

Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as 28 Days Later, World War Z, and the outrageously successful comic book, TV series, and video game—The Walking Dead. In this brain-gripping history, Roger Luckhurst traces the permutations of the zombie through our culture and imaginations, examining the undead’s ability to remain defiantly alive. Luckhurst follows a trail that leads from the nineteenth-century Caribbean, through American pulp fiction of the 1920s, to the middle of the twentieth century, when zombies swarmed comic books and movie screens. From there he follows the zombie around the world, tracing the vectors of its infectious global spread from France to Australia, Brazil to Japan. Stitching together materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writings, colonial histories, popular literature and cinema, medical history, and cultural theory, Zombies is the definitive short introduction to these restless pulp monsters.

Minecraft: Zombies!

Minecraft: Zombies!
Author: Nick Eliopulos
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593498526

Meet the next big thing in the world of official Minecraft novels: zombies! Looking after a little sibling can be a real headache . . . especially when they’re a zombie trying to eat your brains! Life is good for Bobbie in the sleepy village of Plaintown. Sure, her villager parents only ever say “Hrm,” but you pick up the local language quickly. And maybe her little brother, Johnny, is always getting into trouble, but the village’s iron golem is there to look out for him. And, yeah, things are too busy for exploring when you’re the only one in town who ever takes their hands out of their sleeves. But maybe that’s for the best. After all, there are things out there beyond the torchlight that are better handled by adventurers. But one night, a stranger comes to Plaintown—and he’s followed by a horde of ravenous zombies! Bobbie’s village is overrun, and her world is turned upside down as her friends, family, and neighbors fall victim to the zombies’ endless appetite. Life is not so good for Ben, an adventurer with nothing left to his name but the armor on his back. When dawn’s light shows him an abandoned village, he sees it as a chance to pick through the wreckage and get himself back on track. What he wasn’t expecting to run into was a desperate girl with a baby zombie villager on a leash. Bobbie and Johnny are the only ones left . . . and her brother’s a lot greener and a lot bitier than he was last night. There’s still some of Johnny rattling around the little zombie monster’s mind; Bobbie just knows it. And Ben might know a way to bring him back. As the two journey across the Overworld, dragging Johnny along (literally), they brave dangerous depths, terrifying mobs, and an expanding mystery. Was the zombie attack on Bobbie’s village really just bad luck? Where did the rest of the zombies go? And how exactly do you take care of a little brother who can’t stop trying to eat you? Hold onto your brains—and your bows—and get ready to enter Minecraft: Zombies!