Over the last few years, the popularity of zombies has been rising in both popular cul-ture and mass media—the living dead have spread from cinemas to TV series and nov-els as well as computer and video games. In the 2000s ...

In the chapter “What Disappears is Man in the Proper Sense”. On the Relationship Between the Kojèvian “Death of Man” and the Expansion of the Zombie Figure in Popular Culture, Marcin Czardybon shows the convergence taking ...

Ksenia Olkusz’s chapter The Advent of the Living Dead Produces Tyranny: Psycho-social Inspirations in Modelling Micro-dystopias in Post-apocalyptic Zombie Narra-tives focuses on the formulation of a model of shaping power ...

In the chapter The Biblical Tropes of the First Zombies: Subversive Reinterpretations of Biblical Themes in Popular Culture, Andrzej Strużyna proposes a typology of the phenomena of travesty and parody of biblical contents ...

Anna N. Wilk’s chapter Living Dead: The Zombie as a Social Rejection Metaphor in Contemporary Russian Horror Literature discusses the image of the zombie as a met-aphor of discrimination, based on the following works: Anna ...

The video games industry has been successfully using the image of the zombie for dec-ades. Since the first game released in 1984, the zombie-slaying theme has appeared in more than 100 video games and still remains popular. ...

In the chapter Zombie Apocalypse as A Carnival: Reading Living Dead Narratives in the Bakhtinian Context, Maciej Mikołajski ponders the origin of the zombie discourse. He argues that zombies cannot be derived solely from ...

The chapter Queer Zombies: Between Politics, Pastiche and Pornography is dedicated to an analysis of the meaning of the eponymous “queer zombie” figure that appears in contemporary films. Jędrzej Burszta draws attention ...

In the chapter Les Revenants—A French Response to an American Zombie?, Lidia Prokopowicz presents a discussion of the eponymous TV series Les Revenants (2012-) aimed at analysing and interpreting the production as well as ...