Zombies in Western Culture
Zombies in Western Culture Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse,…
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Zombies in Western Culture
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement.
Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor
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