Dharma of the Dead : Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy (Contributions to Zombie Studies)

Moreman, Christopher M.

McFarland & Co Inc（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 243 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476672496
• DDC分類 398.45

Full Description

With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what has been described as America's "death-denying culture." The existential crisis in zombie apocalyptic fiction brings to the fore the problem of humanity's search for meaning in an increasingly global and secular world. Zombies are analyzed in the context of Buddhist thought, in contrast with social and religious critiques from other works.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi

Introduction

Chapter

The Haitian Origins of the Zombie

Chapter

The Evolution of the Cinematic Zombie

Chapter Three

Embodied Death

Chapter Four

Zombies and the Buddhist Meditation on Death

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index