Christopher M. Moreman is a professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, East Bay. He has published widely on topics relating to death, dying, and popular culture. Cory James Rushton is an associate professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction-They're Us: Zombies, Humans/Humans, Zombies

CORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN

I. The Zombie in Humanity

Your Zombie and You: Identity, Emotion, and the Undead

CRAIG DERKSEN and DARREN HUDSON HICK

Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead

GRAHAM ST JOHN

Porn of the Dead: Necrophilia, Feminism, and Gendering the Undead

STEVE JONES

Modern Zombie Makers: Enacting the Ancient Impulse to Control and Possess Another

SUZANNE GOODNEY LEA

"Corporate Zombies" and the Perils of "Zombie Litigation": The Walking Dead in American Judicial Writing

SHARON SUTHERLAND and SARAH SWAN

II. Zombies in the Sacred

The Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the Bible

MICHAEL J. GILMOUR

Religion, Blasphemy, and Tradition in the Films of Lucio Fulci

JAMES REITTER

The Mutated Spirit: The Hollywood Zombie as Psychopomp

KEIRA MCKENZIE

Dharma of the Living Dead: A Buddhist Meditation on the Zombie

CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN

III. Zombies into the Future

Digital Dead: Translating the Visceral and Satirical Elements of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead to Videogames

GARETH SCHOTT

How the Zombie Changed Videogames

MATTHEW J. WEISE

Undead Is the New Green: Zombies and Political Ecology

GREG POLLOCK

Plans Are Pointless; Staying Alive Is as Good as It Gets: Zombie Sociology and the Politics of Survival

SARA SUTLER-COHEN

Bibliography
Filmography
Video Games and Discography
About the Contributors
Index