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Infected Empires Global Media and Race Series Editor: Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University Global Media and Race is a series focused on scholarly books that examine race and global media culture. Titles focus on constructions of race in media, including digi- tal platforms, webisodes, multilingual media, mobile media, vlogs, and other social media, film, radio, and tele vi sion. The series considers how race— and intersectional identities generally—is constructed in front of the camera and b ehind, attending to issues of repre sen tat ion and consumption as well as the making of racialized and anti- racist media phenomena from script to production and policy. Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies Bronwyn Carlson and Jeff Berglund, eds., Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism Matthew David Goodwin, The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens Hyesu Park, ed., Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences Melissa Castillo Planas, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan, eds., Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics Infected Empires Decolonizing Zombies PATRICIA SALDARRIAGA AND EMY MANINI Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Saldarriaga, Patricia, author. | Manini, Emy, 1968– author. Title: Infected empires : decolonizing zombies / Patricia Saldarriaga, Emy Manini. Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022. | Series: Global media and race | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021031066 | ISBN 9781978826786 (paperback) | ISBN 9781978826793 (cloth) | ISBN 9781978826809 (epub) | ISBN 9781978826816 (mobi) | ISBN 9781978826823 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Zombies in motion pictures. | Zombies in popular culture. | Postcolonialism in motion pictures. Classification: LCC PN1995.9.Z63 S35 2022 | DDC 791.43/675—dc23/eng/20211028 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021031066 A British Cataloging- in- Publication rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2022 by Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. References to internet websites (URLs) w ere accurate at the time of writing. Neither the authors nor Rutgers University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www .r utgersuniversitypress . org Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca For Clara, Paul, Rosa, and Miranda Contents Introduction 1 1 What Is a Zombie? 7 2 Mutilate the State! Nation, Race, Power 29 3 Devouring Capitalism 53 4 Bodies That Splatter: Queering and Cripping Zombies 77 5 Of M atter, Dust, and Earth: Zombies and the Environment 101 Conclusion 126 Acknowle dgments 137 Notes 139 Bibliography 165 Filmography 177 Index 181 vii Infected Empires
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