ABSTRACT
Chapter Three, “Zombies: alternative resurrections,” turns to the other undead figure, the zombie. While televised vampires tended to be sexy and dangerous, but redeemable, televised zombies are presented in worlds that force viewers to imagine a hopeless and unbearable future. This chapter explores the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead, where beneath the background landscape of southern churches, priests, cemeteries, and crosses, we find a complicated set of questions surrounding the role of religion in a society undergoing radical change, particularly the themes of bodies, death, resurrection, and mercy in what seems to be a fallen and nihilistic world.
