Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis

• Main Author: Mastropietro, Christopher (Author) (auth)
• Other Authors: Vervaeke, John (Author) (auth), Miscevic, Filip (Author) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2017
• Subjects: Western culture; Zombies; popular culture; crisis of meaning; cultural studies; apocalypse; alienation; media studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...