Romancing the Zombie

Ashley Szanter is an adjunct instructor of English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Her research focuses on monsters, monstrosity, popular culture, and media studies. Jessica K. Richards is an adjunct instructor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. She specializes in cultural and television studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Kyle William BishopIntroduction: Kissing Corpses and Significant “Others”: Facing Our Obsession with Apocalyptic Love (Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards) From Slavery to Sex: Commodifying Romance in the Zombie Film (Jennifer Huss Basquiat)Nobody Wants to Be ­Un-Anything: Pushing Daisies and the Problem of a Kinder, Gentler Undead (Scott Rogers)The Idea of Love and the Reality of Deadgirl (Whitney Cox and Ashley Ruth Lierman)La Petite Mort: Death and Desire in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Amy Carol Reeves) Love and Marriage in the Time of The Walking Dead (Amanda Taylor) Memories of You: The Undying Love of the Zombie in Harold’s Going Stiff (Simon Bacon)The Sexy Millennial Reinvention of the Undead in Warm Bodies and iZombie (Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards)“This place. It’s never going to accept people like us. Never ever”: (Queer) Horror, Hatred and Heteronormativity in In the Flesh (Connor Jackson)Uncanny Valley Romance: Warm Bodies, Her and the Bits and Bytes of Affection (Paul Muhlhauser and Jack D. Arnal)Zombies Want Serious Commitment: The Dread of Liquid Modernity in Life After Beth, Burying the Ex and Nina Forever (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao and Patricia Vazquez)Braaaiiinnnsss: The Recipe for Love in iZombie (Jennifer Rachel Dutch)The Zombie Apocalypse as Hospice Care: Maggie and the Zombie Turn as Cipher for Terminal Illness (William A. Lindenmuth)Disaster Utopia and Survival Euphoria: (A)Sexuality in the Zombie (Post)Apocalypse (George J. Sieg)About the ContributorsIndex