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    The Humanity of the Zombie: A Case Study of a Korean Zombie Comic by Mun-Young Chung

    “…Originally defined as an undead human body by Haitian and Northern African voodoo culture, the zombie has become a popular cultural product. However, in most entertainment media, the zombie has been standardized as a frightful enemy to humans. …”
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    The Icon of the Zombie Mob by Jørgen Riber Christensen

    Published in Akademisk Kvarter (2015-06-01)
    “…Why has the mob been depicted as zombies in World War Z? Here a historical contextualisation can provide an answer, and the article connects the historical role of crowds and mobs in the world of politics, including the so-called “Year of the crowd”, 1989 to contemporary media iconography of mobs in especially Middle Eastern politics. …”
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    “Still Cool as a Zombie”: <i>Community</i>, the Zombie Aesthetic, and the Politics of Belonging by Colin A. Cox

    Published in Humanities (2024-09-01)
    “…From <i>Night of the Living Dead (1968)</i> to <i>The Walking Dead (2010–2022)</i>, zombie media offers a consistent refrain, namely to avoid becoming a zombie. …”
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    Serial Austen. Mashingups with Zombies by Eleonora Federici

    Published in Between (2017-01-01)
    “…Austen is a cross-over phenomenon, with regency costume balls recreated in her name and an endless proliferation of her works in all media. My essay will investigate Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a mash-up novel which has become a real cultural phenomenon of the last decade and will demonstrate how it can be considered a serial narrative. …”
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    Undeath in Paradise: The Humanity of the Zombie in (Religious) Utopias by Madelon Hoedt

    Published in [sic] (2015-06-01)
    “…This negative image of the zombie existed in horror media before Romero’s reinvention of the narrative in the shape of the voodoo zombi of Haitian origins, and this vision has persisted ever since. …”
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    Critique of the living dead: algorithmic aesthetic and the biopolitics of the zombie by Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias

    Published in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (2022-12-01)
    “…Recognizing the importance of the zombie in the interpretative forms of contemporaneity, this paper aims to actualize the current focus of the phenomenon in order to understand it within a strictly material framework. …”
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    Vulnerable Life: Zombies, Global Biopolitics, and the Reproduction of Structural Violence by Steven Pokornowski

    Published in Humanities (2016-08-01)
    “…It reads the discursive structures that dehumanize and pathologize figures in U.S. zombie narratives against the discursive structures present in contemporary legal narratives and media reports on the killing of black Americans. …”
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