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Zombie Media: Transmission, Reproduction, and the Digital Dead
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2012
- pp. 66-89
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0118
- Article
- Additional Information
In zombie films, bodily phenomena of death, decay, and dismemberment are often closely aligned with the contingent traces of mediation, including film grain, distortion, and digital pixelation. Merging the technological and the physical in the frame of "zombie media," these films explore the breakdown of bodies, images, and meaning.