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Generation ZStaying Up Late Watching The Walking Dead

Generation Z: Staying Up Late Watching The Walking Dead [Zombies flank the Jerusalem walls? Zombies invade a southern plantation in the United States? A television show with characters on the run from zombies? Videogames devoted to zombie chases like Planets vs. Zombies or Minecraft? I am baffled by the zombie revolution and the writing of this chapter solidified my continued bewilderment about the allure of zombie worlds. In the chapter, I unravel fascinations with zombies from three different optics. One is more of a landscape optic that speculates on contemporary fascinations with zombies and apocalyptic texts that have earned increased popularity. The other optic is a portrait view of a tween’s keen interest in zombies, drawing out aspects of her life as sedimentations of apocalyptic themes. The third and final optic is a brief close-up and personal account of my own struggles with zombies and researching young people about their investments and ruling passions with gothic, apocalyptic, and zombie worlds.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Generation ZStaying Up Late Watching The Walking Dead

Part of the Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education Book Series
Editors: Carrington, Victoria; Rowsell, Jennifer; Priyadharshini, Esther; Westrup, Rebecca
Rowsell, Jennifer
Generation Z — Dec 18, 2015
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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
ISBN
978-981-287-932-5
Pages
101 –113
DOI
10.1007/978-981-287-934-9_8
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Abstract

[Zombies flank the Jerusalem walls? Zombies invade a southern plantation in the United States? A television show with characters on the run from zombies? Videogames devoted to zombie chases like Planets vs. Zombies or Minecraft? I am baffled by the zombie revolution and the writing of this chapter solidified my continued bewilderment about the allure of zombie worlds. In the chapter, I unravel fascinations with zombies from three different optics. One is more of a landscape optic that speculates on contemporary fascinations with zombies and apocalyptic texts that have earned increased popularity. The other optic is a portrait view of a tween’s keen interest in zombies, drawing out aspects of her life as sedimentations of apocalyptic themes. The third and final optic is a brief close-up and personal account of my own struggles with zombies and researching young people about their investments and ruling passions with gothic, apocalyptic, and zombie worlds.]

Published: Dec 18, 2015

Keywords: Television Show; Alcoholic Anonymous; Figured World; Aesthetic Response; Zombie World

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