Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? 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. 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. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it.
The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie.
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.
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西方僵尸文化研究,还算新颖吧,象征意义解释不是我的菜。但是感觉不适用于西方文化圈外(作者也说了),例如………看看隔壁日本人对僵尸的意淫:爱抖露(《佐贺偶像是传奇》);萌妹子(《散华礼弥》);女装大佬(《这是僵尸么?》)……啊,同一个形象去了另一个地方彻底走样了!文化好虚无!
评分西方僵尸文化研究,还算新颖吧,象征意义解释不是我的菜。但是感觉不适用于西方文化圈外(作者也说了),例如………看看隔壁日本人对僵尸的意淫:爱抖露(《佐贺偶像是传奇》);萌妹子(《散华礼弥》);女装大佬(《这是僵尸么?》)……啊,同一个形象去了另一个地方彻底走样了!文化好虚无!
评分西方僵尸文化研究,还算新颖吧,象征意义解释不是我的菜。但是感觉不适用于西方文化圈外(作者也说了),例如………看看隔壁日本人对僵尸的意淫:爱抖露(《佐贺偶像是传奇》);萌妹子(《散华礼弥》);女装大佬(《这是僵尸么?》)……啊,同一个形象去了另一个地方彻底走样了!文化好虚无!
评分西方僵尸文化研究,还算新颖吧,象征意义解释不是我的菜。但是感觉不适用于西方文化圈外(作者也说了),例如………看看隔壁日本人对僵尸的意淫:爱抖露(《佐贺偶像是传奇》);萌妹子(《散华礼弥》);女装大佬(《这是僵尸么?》)……啊,同一个形象去了另一个地方彻底走样了!文化好虚无!
评分西方僵尸文化研究,还算新颖吧,象征意义解释不是我的菜。但是感觉不适用于西方文化圈外(作者也说了),例如………看看隔壁日本人对僵尸的意淫:爱抖露(《佐贺偶像是传奇》);萌妹子(《散华礼弥》);女装大佬(《这是僵尸么?》)……啊,同一个形象去了另一个地方彻底走样了!文化好虚无!
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