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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Zombie"”.
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film
… psychology as a human science and the viral zombie film genre using the collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari in conjunction with the queer anti-humanist theories of Colebrook and Halberstam. I interwove thematic (i.e. plot, dialogue, character development) and cinematographic (i.e. …
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Zombie Economics: Violence and Economics in three first-person shooter zombie-themed video games.
This thesis presents a textual analysis of three zombie-themed video games: Left4Dead, Call of Duty: Zombies, and Killing Floor. The relationship between violence and economics presented in the in-game actions is analyzed to demonstrate that when capitalism is seen as ideological in nature, the …
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Rate-induced tipping to metastable Zombie fires
… generally believed to be the cause of so-called Zombie fires observed in peatlands, that disappear from the surface, smoulder underground during the winter, and ''come back to life" in the spring. Here, we propose rate-induced tipping (R-tipping) to a subsurface hot metastable state in bioactive …
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Zombified and Traumatized: Healing in Black Women's Zombie Literature
… approach to analyze African American women’s zombie literature. I situate “Cue: Change” (2011) by Chesya Burke, Dread Nation (2018) by Justina Ireland, and “The Love of a Zombie is Everlasting” (2020) by Tish Jackson as sankoffarrationist projects that reimagine the struggles and trauma …
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Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead
This dissertation argues that zombie narratives have always been about white masculinity and that colonialism is the true living dead monster. The zombie is not the load-bearing signifier in these stories. It is the white men who act as representatives of empire that embody tropes and evolve. This …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
This thesis explores the zombie’s rise to prominence in popular culture, with a focus on its development within the comics medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and …
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Exquisite corpses: Narrative emergence in multiplayer zombie video games
… study focuses in particular on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the video game zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. The zombie is by nature monstrously emergent, and …
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Du mythe à la subversion trois manifestations de la figure du zombie filmique
L'apparente pérennité de la figure du zombie, sa résurrection périodique à des moments charnières de l'histoire et son évolution suggère qu'elle pourrait jouer un rôle symbolique au sein de la société où elle prend forme. Le mandat de cette étude consiste donc d'abord à dresser un portrait du …
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Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis - Entrepreneurial Finance in the EU27: State Interventions, Zombie Firms, and Sectoral Performance
Between 2017 and 2023, I worked in the Corporate Lending and Underwriting Department of K&H Bank, where I dealt with financial statement analysis and loan proposals on a daily basis. A central part of my job was to conduct credit risk assessment and analyze the financial situation of companies in …
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Magic to manic : the evolution of the zombie figure In fiction and its basis In moral panic dissemination
The lack of research into the Zombie figure in popular literature is examined in this study in contrast to the sociological and film studies of the genre. The value of the Zombie literary figure is examined as an example of cultural discourse using Bourdieu s field of cultural exchange framework. A …
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Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11
<p>This project plots the coincidence of the "zombie renaissance" and system-justifying nationalist rhetoric post-9/11. The project discusses this cultural cross-section with zombie mash-up fiction, using masculinity and trauma theories, in an attempt to illuminate the motives of "us vs. them" …
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A Discrete Density-Dependent Model of the Solanum Virus
… years. Since 2009, several papers have modeled zombie outbreak using this method with various results. This paper will develop a unique model for the spread of the <em>The Walking Dead</em> zombie virus throughout the contiguous United States. Frequency dependent and density dependent …
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Variations on Zombies and Survivor in Simple Polygons
We study the pursuit-evasion game of a zombie and a survivor on point visibility graphs of simple polygons. A zombie has one objective: catch a survivor by occupying the vertex occupied by the survivor. On its turn, a zombie can only move on the first edge of a \textit{geodesic} path to the …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
This project explores the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed …
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Patient Zero
… "Patient Zero" is about Lillian contracting a zombie-like virus and the efforts of two people who love her, Jenna and Bill, to save her. The movie explores the binary opposites of heterosexual and homosexual love and how Jenna and Bill show their love for Lillian. In addition the impact of …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… fiction, the hardboiled detective novel, and the zombie apocalypse narrative, I attempt to show how three novels subvert these rules as a means to convey social commentary. Despite their novel approaches to the genres they work within, aspects of each novel has been looked over by literary …
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The Memories of the Dead: Trauma and Historical Memory in "[REC]"
The zombie is a monster that has captured the imagination of horror lovers across the world ever since it made the leap from folklore to film. Since then, anxieties over the present and future in these texts have been the object of analysis, while the expression of historical trauma has largely …
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Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism
… Marxist and post-Marxist theories, as well as a zombie narrative, the study will contextualize the movement of assemblages in my life within late-stage capitalism which is juxtaposed with the zombie apocalypse. The placement and displacement of certain understandings of the political within my …
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