Contributions to Zombie Studies: Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead (Paperback)

from aethercowboy

Zombies Are Us is a collection of critical essays on one subject or another, and how it (usually loosely) connects to zombies. Most of the contributors are hardcore academics, and by their very prose they let you know it, unhesitatingly using elitist jargon to enforce the incongruous juxtapositio...

from bookwormteri

Wow. I was not expecting an educational book of philosophy regarding zombies that covers: feminism, necrophilia, ravers, religion, video games, etc. This is no light read. This is almost text-booky. Interesting, but not necessarily a "fun" read. I had to force myself through it. I was looking for...

from readaholic12

I had such great expectations for this book, having pondered for several years now the sociopolitical implications of our zombie-obsessed culture, expressed through books, video games, television and movies. Zombies are so mainstream they are in commercials, and comedies. I looked forward to read...

from quilted_kat

I really wanted to like this book; it sounded interesting. But, it reads like an awkwardly written first-year freshman college research paper. If a teacher assigned their students to write a paper on any subject that they were interested in, and had a dozen or so essays on zombies turned in that ...

from BenTreat

Most of the essays in this book are not particularly good. The essay on the use of the word "zombie" in North American judicial writing was actually quite good, but will probably be skipped by most users of this text. Enough of the writing is in academic-ese (though esoteric language does not mak...