Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of our sexual behaviors. However, the notion of zombie sex has been largely unaddressed in scholarship. This collection addresses that unexamined aspect of zombiedom,…mehr
Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of our sexual behaviors. However, the notion of zombie sex has been largely unaddressed in scholarship. This collection addresses that unexamined aspect of zombiedom, with essays engaging a variety of media texts, including graphic novels, films, television, pornography, literature, and internet meme culture. The essayists are scholars from a variety of disciplines, including history, theology, film studies, and gender and queer studies. Covering The Walking Dead, Warm Bodies, and Bruce LaBruce's zombie-porn movies, this work investigates the cultural, political and philosophical issues raised by undead sex and zombie sexuality.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Shaka McGlotten is associate professor of media, society, and the arts at Purchase College-SUNY, where he researches and teaches on ethnography, digital media, and queer studies. Steve Jones is senior lecturer in media at Northumbria University (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England). His research is principally focused on representations of sex and violence, the philosophy of self, gender politics, and ethics.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Zombie Sex (Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten) 1 Take, Eat, These Are My Brains: Queer Zombie Jesus (Max Thornton) 19 Victorian Values: Necrophilia and the Nineteenth Century in Zombie Films (Marcus Harmes) 36 A Love Worth Un-Undying For: Neoliberalism and Queered Sexuality in Warm Bodies (Sasha Cocarla) 52 For a Good Time Just Scream: Sex Work and Plastic Sexuality in "Dystopicmodern Literature" (Denise N. Cook) 73 Laid to Rest: Romance, End of the World Sexuality and Apocalyptic Anticipation in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (Emma Vossen) 88 Queering and Cripping the End of the World: Disability, Sexuality and Race in The Walking Dead (Cathy Hannabach) 106 Re-Animating the Social Order: Zombies and Queer Failure (Trevor Grizzell) 123 Gay Zombies: Consuming Masculinity and Community in Bruce LaBruce's Otto; or, Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie (Darren Elliott-Smith) 140 "I Eat Brains ... or Dick": Sexual Subjectivity and the Hierarchy of the Undead in Hardcore Film (Laura Helen Marks) 159 Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into Zom-Being (Steve Jones) 180 Bibliography 199 About the Contributors 213 Index 215
Table of Contents Introduction: Zombie Sex (Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten) 1 Take, Eat, These Are My Brains: Queer Zombie Jesus (Max Thornton) 19 Victorian Values: Necrophilia and the Nineteenth Century in Zombie Films (Marcus Harmes) 36 A Love Worth Un-Undying For: Neoliberalism and Queered Sexuality in Warm Bodies (Sasha Cocarla) 52 For a Good Time Just Scream: Sex Work and Plastic Sexuality in "Dystopicmodern Literature" (Denise N. Cook) 73 Laid to Rest: Romance, End of the World Sexuality and Apocalyptic Anticipation in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (Emma Vossen) 88 Queering and Cripping the End of the World: Disability, Sexuality and Race in The Walking Dead (Cathy Hannabach) 106 Re-Animating the Social Order: Zombies and Queer Failure (Trevor Grizzell) 123 Gay Zombies: Consuming Masculinity and Community in Bruce LaBruce's Otto; or, Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie (Darren Elliott-Smith) 140 "I Eat Brains ... or Dick": Sexual Subjectivity and the Hierarchy of the Undead in Hardcore Film (Laura Helen Marks) 159 Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into Zom-Being (Steve Jones) 180 Bibliography 199 About the Contributors 213 Index 215
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