Chapter 3 Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. And the Dead Shall Rise
6. Introduction 5
7. Chapter 1 ‘‘They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!’’: From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again 9
8. Chapter 2 ‘‘We are the mirror of your fears’’: Haitian Identity and Zombification 24
9. Chapter 3 Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama 39
10. Chapter 4 The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age 50
11. And the Dead Shall Walk
12. Introduction 61
13. Chapter 5 A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie 67
14. Chapter 6 Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach 81
15. Chapter 7 Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives 98
16. Chapter 8 Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic 116
17. Chapter 9 All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema 139
18. And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth
19. Introduction 159
20. Chapter 10 Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats 163
21. Chapter 11 Zombie Movies and the ‘‘Millennial Generation’’ 175
22. Chapter 12 ‘‘Off the page and into your brains!’’: New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses 187
23. Chapter 13 Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood 205
24. Afterword: zombie (r)evolution 231
25. Notes 237
26. Selected Bibliography 277
27. Contributors 285
28. Index 289