Full Description
Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is rooted in modern literature, film and mythology. This collection of new essays considers the implications of this scientifically impossible (but perhaps imminent) event, examining real-world responses to pandemic contagion and civic chaos, as well as those from Hollywood and popular culture. The contributors discuss the zombie apocalypse as a metaphor for actual catastrophes and estimate the probabilities of human survival and behavior during an undead invasion.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword (Wade Davis)
Introduction (Amy L. Thompson and Antonio S. Thompson)
The Rise of the Zombie in Popular Culture (James F. Thompson)
Other Apocalypses: Historical Perspectives on Mass Destruction (Nick Proctor)
Looking to the CDC and WHO for Answers (Amy L. Thompson)
A Matter of Timing: The U.S. Army Response to a Zombie Invasion (Jason W. Warren)
Neurobiology of a Zombie (Steven Schlozman)
Communications in a Zombie Apocalypse: Usage, Control and Collapse of Mass Media (Diem-My T. Bui)
Reaction of Health Care Providers to the Zombie Apocalypse (Linda W. Thompson)
Day of the Engineer: Engineering and the Zombie Apocalypse (Jeff Moehlis)
Homeland Security, FEMA and Securing the Masses Against the Zombie Horde (Jeremy Youde)
A Particularly "nasty, brutish, and short" Life: Individuals, Groups and Government in the Zombie Apocalypse (Antonio S. Thompson)
The Law and the Living Dead (Jennifer M. Lankford)
A Sociologist Responds to Zombies (David F. Steele)
The Psychology of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (Scott Mirabile)
"Three men, and the place is surrounded": Reel Women in the Zombie Apocalypse (LuAnne Roth and Kate Shoults)
Postmortem Ethics: Personhood at the Margins of Death (Cory Andrew Labrecque)
Zombies in the Sunshine State: An Economic and Historical Analysis of the Zombie Apocalypse (Christopher M. Esing)
About the Contributors
Index
