Zombies Are Us

Christopher M. Moreman is a professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, East Bay. He has published widely on topics relating to death, dying, and popular culture. Cory James Rushton is an associate professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction—They’re Us: Zombies, Humans/Humans, ZombiesCORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN      I. The Zombie in HumanityYour Zombie and You: Identity, Emotion, and the UndeadCRAIG DERKSEN and DARREN HUDSON HICK      Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the DeadGRAHAM ST JOHN      Porn of the Dead: Necrophilia, Feminism, and Gendering the UndeadSTEVE JONES      Modern Zombie Makers: Enacting the Ancient Impulse to Control and Possess AnotherSUZANNE GOODNEY LEA      “Corporate Zombies” and the Perils of “Zombie Litigation”: The Walking Dead in American Judicial WritingSHARON SUTHERLAND and SARAH SWAN      II. Zombies in the SacredThe Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the BibleMICHAEL J. GILMOUR      Religion, Blasphemy, and Tradition in the Films of Lucio FulciJAMES REITTER      The Mutated Spirit: The Hollywood Zombie as PsychopompKEIRA MCKENZIE      Dharma of the Living Dead: A Buddhist Meditation on the ZombieCHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN      III. Zombies into the FutureDigital Dead: Translating the Visceral and Satirical Elements of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to VideogamesGARETH SCHOTT      How the Zombie Changed VideogamesMATTHEW J. WEISE      Undead Is the New Green: Zombies and Political EcologyGREG POLLOCK      Plans Are Pointless; Staying Alive Is as Good as It Gets: Zombie Sociology and the Politics of SurvivalSARA SUTLER-COHEN      Bibliography      Filmography      Video Games and Discography      About the Contributors      Index

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