{"product_id":"zombie-futures-in-literature-media-and-culture-pandemics-society-and-the-evolution-of-the-undead-in-the-21st-century-9781350285491","title":"Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century","description":"An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time. Exploring depictions of zombies across literature, poetry, comics, television, film and video games, Simon Bacon brings together this timely intervention into how zombies enable speculation about future modes of being in a changing world and represent the fluid notion of 'old' and 'new' normals. With each chapter moving beyond traditional readings of the undead, \u003ci\u003eZombie Futures\u003c\/i\u003esituates the zombie as an evolving cultural imaginary at the centre of discourses around how human cognition and embodiment are effected by global realities such as consumerism, new technologies, climate change and planetary degeneration. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Structured around contagious partisan ideologies, ecological sickness, mental health crisis and the very literal COVID-19 virus, this book establishes how the zombie figure might manifest post-human and post-normative futures. Works featured include graphic novels and comics like \u003ci\u003eThe West + Zombies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrossed\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEndzeit, \u003c\/i\u003e the South Korean series and films \u003ci\u003eKingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrain to Busan\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Peninsula, The Last of Us and the Resident Evil\u003c\/i\u003egame franchises, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBollywood horror anthology\u003ci\u003e Ghost Stories, \u003c\/i\u003eJoss Whedon's\u003ci\u003e Serenity, Cargo\u003c\/i\u003eand literature such as\u003ci\u003e The Girl with All the Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e, the fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku. In a time when popular culture and scholarship has been overrun with the undead, this original study offers a refreshing look at the zombie and what it can tell us about about our world going into and emerging from global catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar working in Poland. He has previously edited works such as \u003ci\u003eGothic: A Reader, Horror: A Companion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonsters: A Companion\u003c\/i\u003e. Previous monographs include \u003ci\u003eBecoming Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDracula as Absolute Other\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Eco-Vampires\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Vampires From Another World\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Unhallowed Ground\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183240020242,"sku":"9781350285491","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12de3e03-5ce4-446f-9a0a-e1cafe017f21.jpg?v=1744459735","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zombie-futures-in-literature-media-and-culture-pandemics-society-and-the-evolution-of-the-undead-in-the-21st-century-9781350285491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}