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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Zombie Apocalypse"”.
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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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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 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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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
… this thesis is concerned what the popular zombie apocalypse television series The Walking Dead (TWD) has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between survivor characters situated among the crumbling remains of …
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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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Stygiophobia and Other Fears of Death and Loneliness: Collected Fiction
… nature. "Affliction," at its core, is about a zombie apocalypse and its effects on a suburban strip mall, but it also explores whether people can put aside their differences for the common good ... during an election season. Finally, "Love, Backwards" centers around a teenage girl and her …
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Inversion
The novel Inversion is a study in human molting and the collapse of diachronic time within advanced, global, informatized capitalism. It is set in Montana.
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Inversion
The novel Inversion is a study in human molting and the collapse of diachronic time within advanced, global, informatized capitalism. It is set in Montana.
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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 …