Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
And the Dead Shall Rise
Introduction
Chapter 1 ''They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!'': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again
Chapter 2 ''We are the mirror of your fears'': Haitian Identity and Zombification
Chapter 3 Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama
Chapter 4 The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age
And the Dead Shall Walk
Introduction
Chapter 5 A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie
Chapter 6 Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach
Chapter 7 Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives
Chapter 8 Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic
Chapter 9 All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema
And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth
Introduction
Chapter 10 Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats
Chapter 11 Zombie Movies and the ''Millennial Generation''
Chapter 12 ''Off the page and into your brains!'': New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses
Chapter 13 Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood
Afterword: zombie (r)evolution
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index