The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture

We are currently experiencing a global explosion of zombie mania, with zombie representations and zombie-related material infiltrating the media and contemporary society in multiple and changing forms. This highly innovative and original collection considers the significant cultural phenomenon of this 'zombie renaissance'. Its chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films, video games, music, social media, literature and fandom. It draws together a range of internationally acclaimed authors to produce new and critical perspectives on what is now a developing global phenomenon: the emergence of zombie culture and fan practices into the cultural mainstream.

Laura Hubner is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Winchester, UK. She is author of The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusion of Light and Darkness (2007); editor of Valuing Films: Shifting Perceptions of Worth (2011) and co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts (2012).
 
Marcus Leaning is Head of Department of the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. He has written on media education and the critical understanding of social media and is the author of The Internet, Power and Society (2009), and a two volume edited collection on Media and Information Literacy (2009).
 
Paul Manning is Reader in Media Sociology at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published widely in the areas of news media, journalism, drugs and popular culture, and new media.

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: THE ZOMBIE RENAISSANCE
1.Introduction; Laura Hubner, Marcus Leaning and Paul Manning
2.An Infected Population: Zombie Culture and the Modern Monstrous; Ian Conrich
3.'I always wanted to see how the other half lives': The Contemporary Zombie as Seductive Proselyte; Kyle Bishop
PART II: ZOMBIES GO TO THE MOVIES
4. Archiving Gore: Who Owns Zombie Flesh Eaters?; Laura Hubner
5.Consumerism and the Undead City: The Silent Hill and Resident Evil Films; Antonio Sanna
6.The Undead Down Under; Steven Allen
PART III: ZOMBIES INVADE TELEVISION, VIDEO GAMES AND MUSIC
7.Rocking with the Undead: How Zombies Infected the Psychobilly Subculture; Jane Dipple
8.A Utilitarian Antagonist: The Zombie in Popular Video Games; Nathan Hunt
9.Zombies and the Sociological Imagination: The Walking Dead as Social-Science Fiction; Darren Reed and Ruth Penfold-Mounce
PART IV: ZOMBIE FANS AND DIGITAL CULTURES
10. Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and YouTube; Marcus Leaning
11. Zomedies, Digital Fan Cultures and the Politics of Taste; Paul Manning
12.Zombie Culture: Dissent, Celebration and the Carnivalesque in Social Spaces; Emma Austin
PART V: ZOMBIES IN WRITING AND CULTURE
13. The Galvanic 'Unhuman': Technology, the Living Dead and the 'Animal-Machine' in Literature and Culture; Fran Mason
14. Zombies, a Lost Literary Heritage and the Return of the Repressed; Toby Venables