Shaka McGlotten is associate professor of media, society, and the arts at Purchase College–SUNY, where he researches and teaches on ethnography, digital media, and queer studies. Steve Jones is senior lecturer in media at Northumbria University (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England). His research is principally focused on representations of sex and violence, the philosophy of self, gender politics, and ethics.

“excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar”—Dead Reckonings; “pick up the book...a very academic read that isn’t light and isn’t casual, but just might get you thinking”—Geek-O-Rama.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Zombie Sex (Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten) 1Take, Eat, These Are My Brains: Queer Zombie Jesus (Max Thornton) 19Victorian Values: Necrophilia and the Nineteenth Century in Zombie Films (Marcus Harmes) 36A Love Worth ­Un-Undying For: Neoliberalism and Queered Sexuality in Warm Bodies (Sasha Cocarla) 52For a Good Time Just Scream: Sex Work and Plastic Sexuality in “Dystopicmodern Literature” (Denise N. Cook) 73Laid to Rest: Romance, End of the World Sexuality and Apocalyptic Anticipation in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead (Emma Vossen) 88Queering and Cripping the End of the World: Disability, Sexuality and Race in The Walking Dead (Cathy Hannabach) 106Re-Animating the Social Order: Zombies and Queer Failure (Trevor Grizzell) 123Gay Zombies: Consuming Masculinity and Community in Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie (Darren ­Elliott-Smith) 140“I Eat Brains … or Dick”: Sexual Subjectivity and the Hierarchy of the Undead in Hardcore Film (Laura Helen Marks) 159Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into ­Zom-Being (Steve Jones) 180Bibliography 199About the Contributors 213Index 215

Shaka McGlotten is associate professor of media, society, and the arts at Purchase College–SUNY, where he researches and teaches on ethnography, digital media, and queer studies. Steve Jones is senior lecturer in media at Northumbria University (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England). His research is principally focused on representations of sex and violence, the philosophy of self, gender politics, and ethics.

“excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar”—Dead Reckonings; “pick up the book...a very academic read that isn’t light and isn’t casual, but just might get you thinking”—Geek-O-Rama.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Zombie Sex (Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten) 1Take, Eat, These Are My Brains: Queer Zombie Jesus (Max Thornton) 19Victorian Values: Necrophilia and the Nineteenth Century in Zombie Films (Marcus Harmes) 36A Love Worth ­Un-Undying For: Neoliberalism and Queered Sexuality in Warm Bodies (Sasha Cocarla) 52For a Good Time Just Scream: Sex Work and Plastic Sexuality in “Dystopicmodern Literature” (Denise N. Cook) 73Laid to Rest: Romance, End of the World Sexuality and Apocalyptic Anticipation in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead (Emma Vossen) 88Queering and Cripping the End of the World: Disability, Sexuality and Race in The Walking Dead (Cathy Hannabach) 106Re-Animating the Social Order: Zombies and Queer Failure (Trevor Grizzell) 123Gay Zombies: Consuming Masculinity and Community in Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie (Darren ­Elliott-Smith) 140“I Eat Brains … or Dick”: Sexual Subjectivity and the Hierarchy of the Undead in Hardcore Film (Laura Helen Marks) 159Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into ­Zom-Being (Steve Jones) 180Bibliography 199About the Contributors 213Index 215

Shaka McGlotten is associate professor of media, society, and the arts at Purchase College–SUNY, where he researches and teaches on ethnography, digital media, and queer studies. Steve Jones is senior lecturer in media at Northumbria University (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England). His research is principally focused on representations of sex and violence, the philosophy of self, gender politics, and ethics.

“excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar”—Dead Reckonings; “pick up the book...a very academic read that isn’t light and isn’t casual, but just might get you thinking”—Geek-O-Rama.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Zombie Sex (Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten) 1Take, Eat, These Are My Brains: Queer Zombie Jesus (Max Thornton) 19Victorian Values: Necrophilia and the Nineteenth Century in Zombie Films (Marcus Harmes) 36A Love Worth ­Un-Undying For: Neoliberalism and Queered Sexuality in Warm Bodies (Sasha Cocarla) 52For a Good Time Just Scream: Sex Work and Plastic Sexuality in “Dystopicmodern Literature” (Denise N. Cook) 73Laid to Rest: Romance, End of the World Sexuality and Apocalyptic Anticipation in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead (Emma Vossen) 88Queering and Cripping the End of the World: Disability, Sexuality and Race in The Walking Dead (Cathy Hannabach) 106Re-Animating the Social Order: Zombies and Queer Failure (Trevor Grizzell) 123Gay Zombies: Consuming Masculinity and Community in Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie (Darren ­Elliott-Smith) 140“I Eat Brains … or Dick”: Sexual Subjectivity and the Hierarchy of the Undead in Hardcore Film (Laura Helen Marks) 159Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into ­Zom-Being (Steve Jones) 180Bibliography 199About the Contributors 213Index 215