Zombies and sexuality : essays on desire and the living dead / edited by Shaka McGlotten and Steve Jones, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis.Publication : Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, cop. 2014Description: 1 vol. (vi-218 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cmISBN: 978-0-7864-7907-8.Series: Contributions to zombie studiesDewey: 398.21, 23Abstract: La 4e de couv. porte : "Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of sexual behaviors.".Bibliography: Bibliogr. p. 199-212. Index.Subject - Topical Name: Zombis Sexualité | Sexualité (psychologie) | Théorie queer| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Prêt normal | Bibliothèque provisoire Bron Salle de lecture | Spectacle (Arts du spectacle) | 791.436.2 ZOM (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0379794948 |
Bibliogr. p. 199-212. Index
La 4e de couv. porte : "Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of sexual behaviors."
P. 1 Introduction : zombie sex / Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten P. 19 Take, eat, these are my brains: queer zombie Jesus / Max Thornton P. 36 Victorian values: necrophilia and the nineteenth century in zombie films / Marcus Harmes P. 52 A love worth un-undying for: neoliberalism and queered sexuality in Warm bodies / Sasha Cocarla P. 73 For a good time just scream: sex work and plastic sexuality in "dystopicmodern literature" / Denise N. Cook P. 88 Laid to rest: romance, end of the world sexuality and apocalyptic anticipation in Robert Kirkman's The walking dead / Emma Vossen P. 106 Queering and cripping the end of the world: disability, sexuality and race in The walking dead / Cathy Hannabach P. 123 Re-animating the social order: zombies and queer failure / Trevor Grizzell P. 140 Gay zombies: consuming masculinity and community in Bruce LaBruce's Otto; or, Up with dead people and L.A. zombie / Darren Elliott-Smith P. 159 "I eat brains ... or dick": sexual subjectivity and the hierarchy of the undead in hardcore film / Laura Helen Marks P. 180 Pretty, dead: sociosexuality, rationality and the transition into zom-being / Steve Jones
