{"product_id":"the-undead-in-the-21st-century-a-companion-9781789977363","title":"The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion","description":"\u003cp\u003e Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon's editorial definition of the concept of being  undead  generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With each chapter, the book unpacks the dense implications of its key concept, as it explores what it means to be undead, to determine who is and who isn't, and how this matters. The book earns its rewards as a  Companion  in the true sense of the term since it is sure to accompany many curious and critical journeys through undead twenty-first-century culture. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Professor Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, Seoul, author of \u003ci\u003eMonsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho are the Undead?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe twenty-first century is truly the age of the undead. They are no longer just vampires or zombies, but every kind of monster that can be imagined. More so, they not only live in the alien terrain of our imaginations or nightmares but are embedded into the very nature of our existence in the neverending catastrophe of the 2000s. Featuring leading scholars such as David Punter, Roger Luckhurst, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Lorna Piatti-Farnell amongst many others, the 30 original essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion \u003c\/i\u003edescribe and explain how the various fears and anxieties we have around such things as contagion, the environment, geopolitics and even ageing give form to the multifarious undead that plague our existence and seem bent on our destruction. However, as shall be argued here, if we can recognise and understand the undead they might not be the end of humanity as we know it, but possibly a way to exist beyond it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12526495\"\u003eSimon Bacon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789977363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789977363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC002010\"\u003eAnthropology | Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-DRA\"\u003eDrama\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-DRA000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC028000\"\u003eWomen's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimon Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning writer and film critic based in Poznań, Poland. He is the Series Editor for \u003ci\u003eGenre Fiction and Film Companions\u003c\/i\u003e with Peter Lang, to which he has also contributed \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eHorror\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and \u003ci\u003eTransmedia Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eTransmedia Vampires\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eNosferatu in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene and the Undead\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). He has published a series of monographs on vampires in popular culture: \u003ci\u003eBecoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eDracula as Absolute Other\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eEco-Vampires\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eVampires from Another World\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003e1000 Vampires on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914385547439,"sku":"9781789977363","price":63.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_66fdd8a6-cd89-4e7b-9ec5-97fbb53a0fb5.jpg?v=1758825806","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/the-undead-in-the-21st-century-a-companion-9781789977363","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}