Zombies in Western Culture

Zombies in Western Culture
Author: John Vervaeke
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178374331X

Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
Author: Matt Mogk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1451641575

In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.

Zombies for Zombies

Zombies for Zombies
Author: David Murphy
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1402228260

Zombies for Zombies leads readers by their cootie-covered hands and encourages each one to take the steps necessary to preserve his or her quality of life.

Disney Zombies: Welcome to Seabrook

Disney Zombies: Welcome to Seabrook
Author: Disney Books
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1368082106

Seabrook has a diverse population, including its award-winning cheerleaders, the zombies from neighboring Zombietown, and a pack of cool werewolves. So it should be no surprise when aliens arrive in Seabrook to compete in the World Cheer Off. This fun guidebook shares the history of Seabrook and how its residents came to call the town home. Revisit when zombies first came to Seabrook High; how Zed, the first zombie football player, took the team to the championships; and how Addison struggled to discover who she really is. Also included are photos and fun facts about each of Seabrook's most beloved residents. Of course, no book about Seabrook would be complete without reliving the romance of Zed and Addison, an unlikely couple who showed Seabrook that it's okay to be different! Complete your Disney Channel collection with these fan favorites: World of Reading: Zombies 2: Call to the Wild HSMTMTS Novelization: Season 1 Miss Jenn's High School Musical Script Book Gabby Duran Adventures in Alien Babysitting Descendants 3: Welcome to Auradon Big City Greens: Blood Moon The Owl House: Witches Before Wizards

Zombies and Calculus

Zombies and Calculus
Author: Colin Adams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1400852013

A novel that uses calculus to help you survive a zombie apocalypse How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel. Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading. Williams also covers topics such as logistic growth, gravitational acceleration, predator-prey models, pursuit problems, the physics of combat, and more. With the aid of his story, you too can survive the zombie onslaught. Featuring easy-to-use appendixes that explain the book's mathematics in greater detail, Zombies and Calculus is suitable both for those who have only recently gotten the calculus bug, as well as for those whose disease has advanced to the multivariable stage.

The Mammoth Book of Zombies

The Mammoth Book of Zombies
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780786700233

Gathers zombie stories by Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Edward Wagner, Brian Lumley, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert Bloch

Minecraft: Zombies!

Minecraft: Zombies!
Author: Nick Eliopulos
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593972805

Meet the next big thing in the world of official Minecraft novels: zombies! Looking after a little sibling can be a real headache . . . especially when they’re a zombie trying to eat your brains! Life is good for Bobbie in the sleepy village of Plaintown. Sure, her villager parents only ever say “Hrm,” but you pick up the local language quickly. And maybe her little brother, Johnny, is always getting into trouble, but the village’s iron golem is there to look out for him. And, yeah, things are too busy for exploring when you’re the only one in town who ever takes their hands out of their sleeves. But maybe that’s for the best. After all, there are things out there beyond the torchlight that are better handled by adventurers. But one night, a stranger comes to Plaintown—and he’s followed by a horde of ravenous zombies! Bobbie’s village is overrun, and her world is turned upside down as her friends, family, and neighbors fall victim to the zombies’ endless appetite. Life is not so good for Ben, an adventurer with nothing left to his name but the armor on his back. When dawn’s light shows him an abandoned village, he sees it as a chance to pick through the wreckage and get himself back on track. What he wasn’t expecting to run into was a desperate girl with a baby zombie villager on a leash. Bobbie and Johnny are the only ones left . . . and her brother’s a lot greener and a lot bitier than he was last night. There’s still some of Johnny rattling around the little zombie monster’s mind; Bobbie just knows it. And Ben might know a way to bring him back. As the two journey across the Overworld, dragging Johnny along (literally), they brave dangerous depths, terrifying mobs, and an expanding mystery. Was the zombie attack on Bobbie’s village really just bad luck? Where did the rest of the zombies go? And how exactly do you take care of a little brother who can’t stop trying to eat you? Hold onto your brains—and your bows—and get ready to enter Minecraft: Zombies!

The Monster Book of Zombies

The Monster Book of Zombies
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2009
Genre: Horror tales, American
ISBN: 9781435120495

Death is not the end! If you are too rational to believe otherwise, then we invite you to read the stories collected in The Monster Book of Zombies. Here are tales of the walking dead reanimated by black magic, weird science, outer space viruses, and plain old human irresponsibility. No matter how they are resurrected, all indulge in malevolent mischief and mayhem that will make you think twice about dismissing the dead as done. The twenty-six zombie tales gathered here cover more than a century and a half of horror history, and show the many aspects of this nightmare of the living dead in all of its gory glory. Soulless, mindless, and unstoppable, the zombies that shamble through these stories are sure to strike terror into the hearts of the most hardened horror reader. Beware the walking dead!

Zombies of Byzantium

Zombies of Byzantium
Author: Sean Munger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Byzantine Empire
ISBN: 9781619212299

The dead have been alive for centuries! It’s the 8th century A.D., and the Byzantine Empire has got problems. A ruthless schemer has just overthrown the emperor and taken the crown for himself. The Saracen army is attacking Constantinople. Only one thing could make these problems look petty by comparison: an invasion of undead, flesh-eating zombies. One young monk has witnessed the horror of the zombies and lived to tell the tale. When the new emperor hears of the danger, he hatches a wild plan. He puts the young monk in charge of creating an army of zombies to defeat the invaders. But it’s not that easy to control the living dead…