Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century”—Communications Booknotes Quarterly; “[Bishop’s] work surpasses the expected and moves into the exceptional...does not disappoint. Bishop takes care in his writing to ensure that even dense and narrow subject matter is explained...an enjoyable read...a necessary book [for] the zombie scholar’s shelf”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction—A Multiplicity of Zombies: How the Walking Dead Conquered Popular CulturePart One: Generic Triad1—The (New) Cinematic Zombie: Road Trips, Globalization and World War Z2—The Comedic Zombie: Zombieland and the Classical Functions of the Modern Zomedy3—The Young Adult Zombie: Teenage Anxiety in The Forest of Hands and TeethPart Two: Beyond Film4—The Comic Book Zombie: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead5—The Literary Zombie: The Infected City of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One6—The Stage Zombie: Dead Set, Uncle Vanya and Zombies, and the ­Reality-TV MonsterPart Three: Broader Horizons7—The Video Game Zombie: The Last of Us and the Digital Evolution of the Walking Dead8—The ­Non-Zombie Zombie: The Tragically Misidentified Draugar of Dead Snow9—The Romantic Zombie: Warm Bodies and the Monstrous BoyfriendConclusion—The Television Zombie: The Future(s) of the Walking DeadFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century”—Communications Booknotes Quarterly; “[Bishop’s] work surpasses the expected and moves into the exceptional...does not disappoint. Bishop takes care in his writing to ensure that even dense and narrow subject matter is explained...an enjoyable read...a necessary book [for] the zombie scholar’s shelf”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction—A Multiplicity of Zombies: How the Walking Dead Conquered Popular CulturePart One: Generic Triad1—The (New) Cinematic Zombie: Road Trips, Globalization and World War Z2—The Comedic Zombie: Zombieland and the Classical Functions of the Modern Zomedy3—The Young Adult Zombie: Teenage Anxiety in The Forest of Hands and TeethPart Two: Beyond Film4—The Comic Book Zombie: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead5—The Literary Zombie: The Infected City of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One6—The Stage Zombie: Dead Set, Uncle Vanya and Zombies, and the ­Reality-TV MonsterPart Three: Broader Horizons7—The Video Game Zombie: The Last of Us and the Digital Evolution of the Walking Dead8—The ­Non-Zombie Zombie: The Tragically Misidentified Draugar of Dead Snow9—The Romantic Zombie: Warm Bodies and the Monstrous BoyfriendConclusion—The Television Zombie: The Future(s) of the Walking DeadFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“explores the renaissance of zombie pop culture in the 21st century”—Communications Booknotes Quarterly; “[Bishop’s] work surpasses the expected and moves into the exceptional...does not disappoint. Bishop takes care in his writing to ensure that even dense and narrow subject matter is explained...an enjoyable read...a necessary book [for] the zombie scholar’s shelf”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction—A Multiplicity of Zombies: How the Walking Dead Conquered Popular CulturePart One: Generic Triad1—The (New) Cinematic Zombie: Road Trips, Globalization and World War Z2—The Comedic Zombie: Zombieland and the Classical Functions of the Modern Zomedy3—The Young Adult Zombie: Teenage Anxiety in The Forest of Hands and TeethPart Two: Beyond Film4—The Comic Book Zombie: Human Devolution in The Walking Dead5—The Literary Zombie: The Infected City of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One6—The Stage Zombie: Dead Set, Uncle Vanya and Zombies, and the ­Reality-TV MonsterPart Three: Broader Horizons7—The Video Game Zombie: The Last of Us and the Digital Evolution of the Walking Dead8—The ­Non-Zombie Zombie: The Tragically Misidentified Draugar of Dead Snow9—The Romantic Zombie: Warm Bodies and the Monstrous BoyfriendConclusion—The Television Zombie: The Future(s) of the Walking DeadFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex