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“Still Cool as a Zombie”: Community, the Zombie Aesthetic, and the Politics of Belonging

Humanities
From Night of the Living Dead (1968) to The Walking Dead (2010–2022), zombie media offers a consistent refrain, namely to avoid becoming a zombie. This refrain makes intuitive sense.
Colin A. Cox
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L’isola degli zombi. Haiti e il passato che non passa da White Zombie di Victor Halperin a Zombi Child di Bertrand Bonello [PDF]

Ocula
The zombie is the quintessential political figure of horror, not only in cinema but across various forms of media. Originating from the folkloric traditions of Haiti, it firmly established itself in the collective imagination through the horror films of ...
Lorenzo Rossi
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Divenire zombi. Da Haiti a Romero, tra automodelli e traduzioni [PDF]

Ocula
The current media landscape presents a rich variety of zombies, differing in appearance and nature. However, prior to the recent “zombie renaissance” (Hubner, Leaning, and Manning 2014), the zombie underwent a “classical” development, from the original ...
Eduardo Grillo
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Zombie intuitions [PDF]

, 2021
In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences have us routinely infer what else is also true of the cases described.
Sytsma, Justin, Fischer, Eugen
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The Icon of the Zombie Mob

Akademisk Kvarter, 2015
The research question of the article is: In the film World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013) not only the iconology of the zombie has changed, also its iconography is new. How does this double alteration of the zombie influence its iconic significance?
Jørgen Riber Christensen
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Zombies in Tondela: Watching I’ll see you in my Dreams (2003)

Brumal: 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, José Duarte, Ana Daniela Coelho   +2 more
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Hercenberger, Daniel. Zombies in der Kirche. Das Zombie-Motiv als Allegorie der Säkularisierung in THE WALKING DEAD und FEAR THE WALKING DEAD. Transcript 2021.

Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2023
Review of Zombies in der Kirche. Das Zombie-Motiv als Allegorie der Säkularisierung in The Walking Dead und Fear the Walking Dead by Daniel Hercenberger Daniel.
Carolin Puckhaber
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Have Contemporary Students Lost Their Identity? The Impact of New Technologies on Today’s Education [PDF]

Dyskursy o Kulturze, 2022
The modern world and its fast-changing educational sector, influenced by constant technological advances, as well as the reforms and requirements of the educational authorities, have brought an enormous impact on how languages are taught nowadays ...
Adam Świątek
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Transcodificare lo zombie

DigitCult@Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures, 2021
Come hanno dimostrato diversi studi (tra cui, Boni 2016; Barra e Scaglioni 2017) lo zombie si presta a divenire una metafora utile per comprendere alcuni tratti della nostra relazione con i media, in termini di passività e coinvolgimento attivo. Partendo
Mirko Lino
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And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us: On zombies, politcal protests and the transmodality of political metaphors [PDF]

Družboslovne Razprave, 2015
Built around a case study of the zombie metaphor used to denigrate protesters during the popular political uprisings in Slovenia during the winter of 2012–2013, this article introduces the notion of a transmodal metaphor to capture the many roles and ...
Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
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