Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and astronomy. They are powerful, multifarious metaphors representing fears of contagion and doom but also isolation and abandonment, as well as troubling aspects of human cruelty, public spectacle and abusive relationships. This critical examination of the 21st-century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde.

About the Author
Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

Reviews
"explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century"-Communications Booknotes Quarterly; "[Bishop's] work surpasses the expected and moves into the exceptional...does not disappoint. Bishop takes care in his writing to ensure that even dense and narrow subject matter is explained...an enjoyable read...a necessary book [for] the zombie scholar's shelf"-Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.



Book Information
ISBN 9780786495412
Author Kyle William Bishop
Format Paperback
Page Count 236
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 322g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm