The anthropocene and the undead: cultural anxieties in the contemporary popular imagination
(Un)death of the father : self-sacrificing paternity in modern zombie narratives / Kyle William Bishop -- Undeath, theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017) / Gheorghe Williams -- Maggie in the necrocene / Johan Höglund -- The uncanny valley of the anthropocene : short storie...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham Boulder New York London
Lexington Books
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Lexington Books horror studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Ecocriticism
B Zombies in motion pictures B Zombie films History and criticism B Human ecology in literature B Zombies in literature B Horror tales History and criticism B Human ecology in motion pictures B Posthumanism in literature |
| Summary: | (Un)death of the father : self-sacrificing paternity in modern zombie narratives / Kyle William Bishop -- Undeath, theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017) / Gheorghe Williams -- Maggie in the necrocene / Johan Höglund -- The uncanny valley of the anthropocene : short stories about the undead under the brightest of lights / Nils Bubandt -- Mutants and tourists : horror film, sacrifice zones, and Chernobyl diaries (2012) / Steffen Hantke -- A panic on the 4th of July : municipal malfeasance, mutation and monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The bay (2012) / Rebecca Stone Gordon -- "Dying all the time" : the future as the extended present and the zombification of history in the anthropocene / Elana Gomel -- Avenging the anthropocene : returning the dead to life while destroying the planet in the Avengers films / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. -- "To remember forever to forget" : into eternity and the anti-anthropocene / Kristopher Woofter and Mikaela Bobiy -- "You're next!" : the enemy within and the end of the anthropocene as seen in adaptions of "Who goes there?" and The body snatchers / Andrew J. Wilson -- Non-consensual eco-sex : a guided meditation to the permeable membrane / Sarah Lewison -- Back from the dead : tailings ponds in the Albertan oil sands mining operations / Aaron Bradshaw -- Post-anthropocenic undying futures : the ecocritical dystopian posthuman in Lai's The tiger flu and Bacigalupi's "The people of sand and slag" / Conrad Scott -- "Cause tonight is the night/when two become one" : stranger things, parasitism, assimilation and the abject / Daisy Butcher -- After the end : the postanthropocene future of Endzeit / Lars Schmeink. "This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1793625824 |