Contributions to Zombie Studies: We're All Infected: Essays on Amc's the Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human (Paperback)

from KathyWoodall

The thirteen essays in this collection discuss virtually every aspect of AMC's television series The Walking Dead from the implications of its sanction of total violence in the war on zombies to the nature of zombie consciousness and how it affects our assumptions about what it means to be human....

from booklove2

Here you have a bunch of smart professors talking about AMC's TV show 'The Walking Dead'. As much as I love the show, I had a sneaking suspicion that this book might be a bit out there. Even though there is much more than zombies happening on 'The Walking Dead', this is still a show about zombies...

from lizzyerwin

Academic explorations of popular culture zeitgeists runs the risk of being so focused on scholarly analysis that the joy imbued into the media being examined is lost. "We're All Infected" manages to side step this potential pitfall and offers a wonderfully nuanced look at the reasons why AMC's Th...

from mstrust

A collection of essays on "The Walking Dead", but also on zombie movies in general. The authors are all academics; lecturers, associate professors, a couple of PhDs and one criminology lecturer. Several of the essays discuss the Haitian mythology that zombies come from and the change that happene...

from karenweyant

Although not a big fan of the show, I found the essays in We're All Infected: Essays on AMC's The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human" intriguing, especially since I am always interested when academia discusses popular culture. Indeed, this collection is academic in tone, and some of the subje...