Research Catalog

Title

Romancing the zombie : essays on the undead as significant "other" / edited by Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards ; foreword by Kyle William Bishop.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Szanter, Ashley
• Richards, Jessica K.
• Bishop, Kyle William, 1973-

Description

xi, 225 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This collection of new essays examines the newest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The Essays cover a range of diverse topics, including audience obsession with Apocalyptic love; the problem of a kinder, gentler undead; millennial reinvention of the "sexy zombie"; and "uncanny valley romance.""--

Series Statement

Contributions to zombie studies

Uniform Title

Contributions to zombie studies.

Subject

• Zombies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Kissing Corpses and Significant "Others": Facing Our Obsession with Apocalyptic Love / Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards -- From Slavery to Sex: Commodifying Romance in the Zombie Film / Jennifer Huss Basquiat -- Nobody Wants to Be Un-Anything: Pushing Daisies and the Problem of a Kinder, Gentler Undead / Scott Rogers -- The Idea of Love and the Reality of Deadgirl / Whitney Cox and Ashley Ruth Lierman -- La Petite Mort: Death and Desire in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / Amy Carol Reeves -- Love and Marriage in the Time of The Walking Dead / Amanda Taylor -- Memories of You: The Undying Love of the Zombie in Harold's Going Stiff / Simon Bacon -- The Sexy Millennial Reinvention of the Undead in Warm Bodies and iZombie / Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards -- "This place. It's never going to accept people like us. Never ever": (Queer) Horror, Hatred and Heteronormativity in In the Flesh / Connor Jackson -- Uncanny Valley Romance: Warm Bodies, Her and the Bits and Bytes of Affection / Paul Muhlhauser and Jack D. Arnal -- Zombies Want Serious Commitment: The Dread of Liquid Modernity in Life After Beth, Burying the Ex and Nina Forever / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao and Patricia Vazquez -- Braaaiiinnnsss: The Recipe for Love in iZombie / Jennifer Rachel Dutch -- The Zombie Apocalypse as Hospice Care: Maggie and the Zombie Turn as Cipher for Terminal Illness / William A. Lindenmuth -- Disaster Utopia and Survival Euphoria: (A)sexuality in the Zombie (Post)Apocalypse / George J. Sieg.

Call Number

JFE 17-11216

ISBN

• 9781476667423
• 147666742X

LCCN

2017031152

OCLC

987796701

Title

Romancing the zombie : essays on the undead as significant "other" / edited by Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards ; foreword by Kyle William Bishop.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contributions to zombie studies

Contributions to zombie studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Szanter, Ashley, editor.

Richards, Jessica K., editor.

Bishop, Kyle William, 1973- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11216