Abject, The, 6, 12, 18, 20–3, 58, 171, 174–7, 188, 192–4 Afterdark Festival

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abject, the, 6, 12, 18, 20–3, 58, 171, Criminal Justice Act UK (1982), 93 174–7, 188, 192–4 culturalism, 8 afterdark festival, 169 cyborgs, 195–6, 203 Afterlife, 113 agency and structure, 127–8, 136 Danse Macabre, 100, 102 Alice in Zombieland, 209 Dawn of the Dead (1978), 16, 27, 42, All We Need is Brain, 119 93, 108, 117, 137, 180, 212 Apple App Store, 120 Dawn of the Dead (2004), 195, 212 Australian ﬁlm industry, 22, 71–3, Day of the Dead (1985), 32, 103, 74–7, 78–84 180, 214 Dead and Breakfast (2004), 167 Bahktin, Mikhail, 6, 8, 34, 98, 181–2 Dead Girls, 195, 197, 204 Baudrillard, Jean, 60 Deadheads (2011), 8, 161, 164 Beach of the Dead (Brighton), 174 Dead Island, 117 Beck, Ulrich, 156 Dead Rising 1 and 2, 111–12, 115–16 Boon,Kevin,4,7 Dead Set (2008), 212 The Borg, 195 Dead Snow (2009), 212 Boyle, Danny, 4 Deliverance (1972), 121 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), 202 Descartes, Rene, 199 British Board of Film Censors (BBFC), dialogic practices, 149–53 44–6 Diary of the Dead (2008), 142, 180 Buffy the Vampire Slayer digital technologies, 166–7, 171 (1997–2003), 31 Douglas, Mary, 6, 177 burial practices, 176–7 Dracula (1897), 31, 211 Butler, Judith, 98 Draugar, 216–19 The Dreaming (1988), 81 Call of Duty, 11, 115 Carlyle, Thomas, 198–200 embodiment, 127–8, 136 Carmageddon, 115 The Evil Dead (1981), 162 Carmilla (1872), 31 Carnival, 6, 20–2, 33–4, 98–100, fabulation, 91, 97 181–2, 187 Facebook, 142–3 Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974), 74 fan cultures, 161–2, 165–7 Cash, Johnny, 95 fan edits, 51 Cell (Stephen King), 215 Feltham Football Club, 100–1 Cockneys vs Zombies (2012), 17 feminist perspectives, 97, 112 Colin (2008), 180 Fido (2006), 29, 161 colonialism, 76–7 Flaming Zombooka, 119 conservatism, 92–3, 99 ﬂesh mobs, 132 consumerism, 10, 16, 24, 95–6, 124, Flight of the Living Dead: outbreak on a 164, 179, 211 plane (2007), 161 counter-culture, 93 The Forest of Hands and Teeth, 29 Cowboy Zombies (2013), 17 formalism, 5

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Frankenstein (1818), 64, 193, 195, Live Action Role Playing Games, 200, 211 30, 34 Frankenstein (1931), 202 Lovecraft, H.P., 201–2 Freud, Sigmund, 5 low-budget ﬁlm making, 11–12, 52, Fulci, Lucio, 41–2, 49, 51–2, 195 165–6, 180 ludic qualities, 185 game studies, 107 Gibson, William, 203 The Magic Island (1929), 92 gothic, 43, 60, 73–4, 81–2 MakeaZombie1and2, 120 goth subculture, 31, 36, 94 Meteors, The, 95–6 Graveyard Alice – A Zombie Nurse in Metropolis (1927), 202 Love (2003), 167 ‘Millennial, Generation’, 36 the grotesque, 182–3 Mumsnet, 11, 141, 144–5, 148, 155–7

Hall, Stuart, 93, 100 NETLYTIC software, 145 Halo, 114 Night of the Living Dead (1968), 16, 92, Hammersmith, 100 109, 111–12, 137, 162, 179 The Hills Have Eyes (2006), 121 Night of the Living Dead (1990), 164 Hills, Matt, 167 Norse tales, 211–12, 217–18 Homecoming (2011), 164 Nosferatu (1922), 42 House of Dracula (1945), 64 Nudist Colony of the Dead (1991), 167 House of the Dead (1997–), 17, 114 hybridisation, 17, 76, 91, 99, 183 O’Brien, Brad, 7 Occupy Wall Street, 186 I Am Legend (1954), 31, 212 Ozploitation, 72 I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas, 209 para-texts, 166 indigenous peoples, 71–3, 74, 80–2 performativity, 98 Infectionator, 120 personal troubles and public In the Flesh (2013), 212 issues, 130 Interview with the Vampire (1976), 31 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), 75 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, (1956), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), 212 7, 165 Plague of the Zombies (1966), 16 Islamaphobia, 161 Planet Terror (2007), 212 Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1895), 64 Pontypool (2008), 216 I Walked with a Zombie (1943), 7, Portsmouth, 174 16, 43 post 9/11 anxieties, 26, 92, 103, 161, 168–9 Jacques, Martin, 93 postmodernism, 108, 136, 193 The Jewel of the Seven Stars, 208 post-settler culture, 81–2 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 13, King of the Zombies (1941), 167 208–9 Kristeva, Julia, 6, 178–9 Primal (2010), 70–84 psychobilly, 10, 91–104 Land of the Dead (2005), 27, 132, 168, punk music, 92, 100 180, 212 The Last Man On Earth (1964), 163 Reaganism, 92 Left for Dead, 113, 115 Red Dead, 115 liminality, 177–8, 184–5 regulation, 41, 44–7 226 Index

Resident Evil (2002–2012), 10, 17, vampires, 18–19 56–7, 107, 111, 113, 121, 132, Vault of Horror,17 160, 212 ‘Video nasties’, 47–8 The Returned (2013), 212 Video Recordings Act UK (1984), 47 Return of the Living Dead, 32 The Viking Dead, 216–17 RevoltoftheZombies(1936), 163 Vineland, 197, 204 ‘Riciﬁcation’, 31 Voodoo Island (1957), 43 Ringu, 114 Rock Star Games, 115 The Walking Dead (2010 – ), 11, 27, Romero, George, 8, 16–17, 26–9, 32, 124–5, 127–34, 160, 181, 212 42–5, 72, 92, 110, 142, 162–5, Warm Bodies (2011), 17, 32, 164, 212 175, 179, 180 Wasting Away (2007), 167–8 Russell, Jamie, 7, 46 White Zombie (1932), 16, 27, 44, 162, 168 Sartor Resartus, 197–8 World War Z, 17, 126, 132, 210 Shaun of the Dead (2004), 8, 18, 27, 37, Wright-Mills, C. 125, 130 96, 163–4, 212 Silent Hill (2006–2012), 10, 56–67 Youth subcultures, 94, 99 skinheads, 93–4 YouTube, 42, 50, 141, 143–5, 147, social media, 3–4, 37, 143, 169, 184 168–9 social science ﬁction, 124–5, 136 ZASG (zombie apocalypse survival social space, 174, 176–7 guides), 142–3 Steampunk, 110 Zombie Apocalypse (2010), 142 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Zombie Baseball, 119 Hyde (1886), 60 Zombie Brigade (1988), 70–84 structure and agency, 127–8, 136 Zombie Go Boom (YouTube channel), Stubbs the Zombie: rebel without a 144–5, 155–7 pulse, 118 Zombie Hooker Nightmare, 119 Survival of the Dead (2009), 180, 212 zombie iconography, 103 Zombieland (2009), 17, 118, 212 Tales From the Crypt,17 zombie punking, 35 Thatcherism, 92–3, 99–100, 103 zombie runs, 20, 22, 34–5, 126, 184 theoretical, approaches, 4–7 Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009), Tomes of the Dead, 210 160, 167–70 2.8 Hours Later (Leeds), 126 The Zombie Survival Guide, 210, 214–15 28 Days Later (2002), 17, 27, 114, 162, zombie video games, 108–9, 111–16, 181, 212 117–21, 166 28 Weeks Later (2007), 17, 212 zombie walks, 15, 20, 35, 160–1, Twitter, 169 174–5, 184–7 Typologies of zombies, 5, 162–3, 179, Zombi 2 / Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), 193–4 10, 41–53 Zombosium, University of uncanny, the, 5 Winchester, 3 Undead (2003), 70–84 zomedies, 160–1, 168–9