Not Your Average Zombie Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks

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A thorough analysis of zombies in popular culture from the 1930s to contemporary society. The zombie apocalypse hasn’t happenedーyetーbut zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don’t conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how “extra-ordinary” zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, “extra-ordinary” zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living. “Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism . . . useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender.” ーPopular Culture Studies Journal “Kee’s Not Your Average Zombie is an important book . . . Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice.” ーAmerican Quarterly “

Not Your Average Zombie

offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field . . . A fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure.” ーJournal of the Fantastic in the Arts “I’m impressed by Kee’s scholarship across several fieldsーfilm history and gender and critical race studies, especiallyーand her cultural and historical contextualizing of the current zombie renaissance.” ーJames H. Cox, University of Texas at Austin, author of The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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