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The Cultural and Political Life of Zombies A JCRT Special Edition |
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Introduction: The Cultural Un/Life of Zombies
Victor Taylor, York College of Pennsylvania Dennis M. Weiss, York College of Pennsylvania When zombies appear, they seem to do so from everywhere and all at once. This is true in zombie films and in more recent television shows. It is seldom that just one... |
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the Metaphor: Gay Zombies and the Challenge to Homonormativity |
From the Classical Polis to the
Neoliberal Camp: Mapping the Biopolitical Regimes of the Undead in
Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2 and 28 Days Later Tamas Nagypal, York University, Toronto The aim of this paper is to map the (bio)political conflicts around the undead body that emerged in early... |
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Zombie 2.0: Subjectivation in Times of Apocalypse Yari Lanci, Goldsmiths, University of London In recent times, the zombie has been celebrated as the "official monster of our Great Recession." From the allegories and metaphors employed by different cultural theorists to... |
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Adorno, Zizek and the Zombie: Representing Mortality in an Age of Mass Killing Gary A. Mullen, Gettysburg College The opening scene of the Walking Dead presents us with a graveyard of icons. The police cruiser of protagonist, Deputy Rick Grimes, comes to a halt at an intersection... |
Living in the Land of the Dead: George Romero, Gilles Deleuze, and the Question of the Zombie Vernon W. Cisney, Gettysburg College It would seem that the living dead are ubiquitous these days. The last few years alone have produced such highly successful zombie films as The Cabin in the Woods... |
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The Watching Dead: The Panoptic Gaze and Ideologic Zombies Christopher M. Flavin, Northeastern State University The image of the zombie horde as a sea of undead ghouls, pressed against the fences and barricades surrounding the final pockets of civilized life, is a mainstay of postmodern... |
The Walking Dead as Conservative Cultural Critique Charles Nuckolls, Brigham Young University Killing zombies can be understood as a form of ritual sacrifice with two purposes: To reinforce the solidarity of the survivor community, and second, to perform... |
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The Walking Flesh:
Zombies, Narrative Desire, and the Apostle Paul's Anxious Account of Embodiment Larry T. Shillock, Wilson College Lacking the subscription revenue enjoyed by Home Box Office (HBO), the cable network American Movie Classics (AMC) is in the unenviable position of needing to support... |
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A review of Vincent W. Lloyd, The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology Jeffrey Scholes, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs The Problem with Grace, at a cursory glance, stands as one more entry in the ever-growing field of political theology - a field that... |
A review of Monica Miller's Religion and Hip Hop Joseph Winters, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Over the past two decades, hip hop culture has become a lucrative site of scholarship and critical engagement. In response to hasty dismissals of hip hop as nihilistic... |
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A review of William Irwin Thompson's Beyond Religion: From Shamanism to Religion to Post-Religious Spirituality Sharon L. Coggan, University of Colorado Denver Is religion supposed to fit its time and place, or is religion a storehouse for eternal truths, true for all times and places? The Western religions tend to present themselves as... |
A review of Lisa J. Shaver, Beyond the Pulpit: Women s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press Kerrie L. Carsey, York College of Pensylvania In recent years, the field of rhetoric studies has seen a boom in scholarship that establishes women's voices... |
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A review of Clayton Crockett & Jeffrey W. Robbins, Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, SKB University, India This book is an outcome of a cognitive rainbow coalition of philosophy, natural sciences, art, social sciences and theology. It is a unique attempt on the part of the writers to string... |
Out of the Woods? On Zizek's Less Than Nothing Adam Kotsko, Shimer College Descartes once famously declared that someone who is lost in the woods should pick a direction and walk in a straight line. Even if it turns out to be the wrong direction... |
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