How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century

by Kyle William Bishop

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786495413
• ISBN13: 9780786495412
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher