Category Archives: zombie

Religion Dispatches: Toward a Zombie Theology

December 9th, 2010 | Posted in The Walking Dead, theological reflection, theology, zombie

My latest entry at Religion Dispatches, this time for their blog, is now available. In includes some thoughts related to the final episode of the AMC series The Walking Dead, in a post titled “Toward a Zombie Theology.” The piece connects zombies, theology, and neuroscience. After discussing the episode titled “TS-19,” and mentioning its Christian […]

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Modern Life as Zombie: Metaphor and Symbol

December 6th, 2010 | Posted in zombie

With the popularity of the AMC television program The Walking Dead, which unfortunately aired its final episode last night for the first season, there has been a rise in the discussion of zombies in the media. A good example of this comes in the form of a recent article in the New York Times titled […]

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Entertainment Weekly: The Walking Dead “Best New Show on TV”

November 29th, 2010 | Posted in horror, The Walking Dead, zombie

I recently came across a magazine that devoted its cover to their assertion that AMC’s The Walking Dead is “The Best New Show on TV.” Surprisingly, this claim and appreciation for a zombie horror show was not found on the cover of Fangoria, Horror Hound, or Famous Monsters of Filmland, but instead on Entertainment Weekly […]

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Reflections on The Walking Dead

November 5th, 2010 | Posted in graphic novels, horror, The Walking Dead, zombie

The television series The Walking Dead premiered last Sunday, Halloween night, and I thought before the second episode this weekend I’d share a few reflections. Given my interests and the social venues and media circles I travel in it was difficult not to become aware of this series. AMC did a masterful job of tapping […]

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The Walking Dead – Behind the Scenes Trailer

September 25th, 2010 | Posted in comics, zombie

Graphic novels and comics continue to be a great source for contemporary fantastic film and television. On October 31 Robert Kirkman’s graphic novel The Walking Dead comes together with the direction of Frank Darabont in what promises to be a great horror television series on AMC. You can visit The Walking Dead AMC Series website […]

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Richard Harland Smith and Our Inner Contagion

September 18th, 2010 | Posted in horror, infection, vampire, zombie

The other day I was following various research threads on the Internet and discovered the Turner Classic Movies blog titled Movie Morlochs, which classic science fiction fans will recognize as a takeoff from George Pal’s The Time Machine. Unfortunately, despite the clever name, the blog is not solely devoted to science fiction films, but it […]

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Kyle Bishop: American Zombie Gothic

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in apocalypticism, horror, post-apocalypticism, zombie

I first became aware of Kyle Bishop and his work on zombies in film and culture for his PhD while researching the surge in academic work on horror. I then came across an article on his research in The University of Arizona’s UA News, “The Zombie: A New Monster for a a New World.” I […]

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Open Graves, Open Minds Conference Update

August 14th, 2010 | Posted in conference, undead, vampire, zombie

In a previous post I mentioned the Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Human Culture conference which looked at various ways in which the vampire serves as a metaphor in culture. The conference was held in April of this year on the campus of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. (See […]

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Open Salon: “What Does the Zombie Genre Say About the Modern West?”

July 21st, 2010 | Posted in horror, zombie

Kim Paffenroth of the Gospel of the Living Dead blog, as well as editor and author of several zombie books, recently made a Facebook post which referenced an interesting item. It is an article at open salon titled “What Does the Zombie Genre Say about the Modern West?”. This piece, by an author listed as […]

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Coming Attractions

July 5th, 2010 | Posted in horror, vampire, zombie

In the near future I will be interacting with the authors or editors of several books. To begin this process, I have mentioned this book in the past but am slow to finally read the volume. I have just begun Stephen Asma’s On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears (Oxford University Press, 2009): […]

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