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Zombies All! The Janus-Faced Zombie of the Twenty-first Century

Boyer, Eric

Journal of popular culture, 2014-12, Vol.47 (6), p.1139-1152 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Título:
    Zombies All! The Janus-Faced Zombie of the Twenty-first Century
  • Autor: Boyer, Eric
  • Assuntos: 21st century ; American Political Culture ; Authors ; Cultural history ; English Literature ; Fiction ; Globalization ; Islamic Fundamentalism ; Islamophobia ; Kirkman, Robert (b.1978) ; Monsters ; Political science ; Politics ; Popular culture ; Rhetoric ; Terrorism ; The Walking Dead (TV series) ; themes and figures ; Twenty-First Century ; violence ; zombie ; Zombies
  • É parte de: Journal of popular culture, 2014-12, Vol.47 (6), p.1139-1152
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  • Descrição: In the early twenty-first century, zombies have broken out of the "B" horror genre and overrun all realms of American Popular culture. From basic cable to Jane Austin to the New York Times, the Zombie is (once again) haunting the American psyche. "Philosophical zombies" haunt the (minds/brains) of philosophers, the fear of "death panels" haunts debates over healthcare reform, and "toxic assets" threaten to infect the financial institutions of the global economy. It appears that humanity is indeed living through a kind of zombie apocalypse, yet in an ironic turn the discipline of political science remains safely ensconced within walls that remain battered but not yet broken. The zombie has always been political, but in political science the zombie renaissance remains on the margins, mostly seen through the addition of "and zombies!" to already established disciplinary discourses. While the zombie is an effective way to repackage the material of political science, further analysis shows that there is more to the zombie than a method by which old wine can be poured into new bottles. As it has since its inception into American popular culture, the zombie does more than simply highlight what we already know about the world of politics. The zombie offers a lens through which to see the world in a new way, and the argument in this paper is one such example: the ways in which the zombie can help make sense of the rhetoric surrounding, and responses to, the "war on terror."
  • Editor: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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