Giving the Living Dead their due / Marc Leverette and Shawn McIntosh -- The evolution of the zombie : the monster that keeps coming back / Shawn McIntosh -- The folklore of the zombie film / Mikel J. Koven -- Zombie splatter comedy from Dawn to Shaun : cannibal carnivalesque / Linda Badley -- Vita, amore, e morte-- and lots of gore : the Italian zombie film / Brad O'Brien -- The space of apocalypse in zombie cinema / David Pagano -- Zombies without organs : gender, flesh, and fissure / Patricia MacCormack -- Cannibalizing gender and genre : a feminist re-vision of George Romero's zombie films / Natasha Patterson -- Hybridity and post-human anxiety in 28 days later / Martin Rogers -- Can't sleep when you're dead : sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the undead in psychobilly / Annelise Sklar -- Zombies in gamespace : form, context, and meaning in zombie-based video games / Tanya Krzywinska -- "Now I'm feeling zombified" : playing the zombie online / Ron Scott -- The funk of forty thousand years; or, How the (un)dead get their groove on / Marc Leverette.