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Author:   Shaka McGlotten ,  Steve Jones
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786479078

ISBN 10:   0786479078
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 September 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar --<i>Dead Reckonings</i>; pick up the book...a very academic read that isn't light and isn't casual, but just might get you thinking --<i>Geek-O-Rama</i>.

Author Information

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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