Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis

Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis

John Vervaeke und andere

Beschreibung des Verlags

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.

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2020
9. Januar
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
105
Seiten
VERLAG
Studium Publishing
GRÖSSE
1,3
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