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Resisting Bodies: Power Crisis / Meaning Crisis in the Zombie Film from 1932 to Today

open access: yesTextes & Contextes, 2011
Critics have repeatedly focused on the political subtexts of the living dead films of George A. Romero, revealing, notably, how they reflect specific social concerns. In order to determine what makes the zombie movie and the figure of the zombie
David Roche
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Zombie-Themes Outbreak Films and World War Z (2013)

open access: yesCINEJ Cinema Journal, 2022
There are many subgenres and a diverse range of creatures in horror cinema. One of these creatures is the Zombie. The Zombie character in cinema has evolved through eras.
Barış Tolga Ekinci
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The Humanity of the Zombie: A Case Study of a Korean Zombie Comic

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2017
Originally defined as an undead human body by Haitian and Northern African voodoo culture, the zombie has become a popular cultural product. However, in most entertainment media, the zombie has been standardized as a frightful enemy to humans.
Mun-Young Chung
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The Role of Zombie Firms in Industrial Sustainable Development: Evidence From Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
The development of the regional economy is of major concern against the backdrop of the “new normal.” As a problem that has persisted in China for decades, zombie firms have a negative impact on regional and industrial sustainable development. This study
Haijing Wang, Yusheng Kong, Junguo Shi
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Viral apocalypse: Discourses of spreading and stopping epidemic through the example of zombie film narrative [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2021
Based on the point of view that popular culture performs metaphorical narration of the contemporary society, this paper analyses the ways in which elements of zombie film narratives are used as a representation of infectious diseases, that is ...
Mandić Marina
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CD8+ T cell memory is sustained in mice by hepatic stellate cells

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
HSC role in memory CD8+ T cell maintenance. Abstract Background and Aims Long‐lasting immunological memory is the ultimate goal of vaccination. Homeostatic maintenance of memory CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (MemCD8TCs) is thought to be mediated by IL‐15/IL‐15R heterodimer (15HD)‐expressing myeloid cells.
Yi‐Ting Chen   +4 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
wiley   +1 more source

How do zombie firms affect labor mobility: city-level empirical evidence from China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Zombie firms hinder the healthy development of the economy and society and may also affect labor mobility. Using microdata from the 2000–2015 population censuses and the Chinese industrial enterprises database from 1998 to 2013, this paper empirically ...
Lei Sheng, Xi Zhang, Na Hong
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Zombies in Tondela: Watching I’ll see you in my Dreams (2003)

open access: yesBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2015
Monsters have attracted our imagination throughout times, even in an apparently rational and pragmatic age such as ours. Being one of the monsters of the new millennium, the zombie is now a permanent figure of popular culture, both embodying society’s ...
Rita Martins   +2 more
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From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies

open access: yesText Matters, 2021
Since their first screen appearances in the 1930s, zombies have enjoyed immense cinematic popularity. Defined by Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as mindless, violent, decaying and infectious, they successfully function as ultimate fiends in horror
Magdalena Cieślak
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