All dark inside: Dehumanization and zombification in postmodern cinema

Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 139-157

  Fhlainn, Sorcha Ní ^a,b  

^a Centre for Talented Youth   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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