Legions of cultural critics are focusing the beam of Marxist-inflected critical theory around the mass-cultural phenomenon of zombies. And just what a phenomenon they’ve become. Zombies—the rambling, publish-apocalyptic, multitudinous variety, instead of the voodoo-caused loners of Caribbean lore—have spread just like a virulent contagion since their introduction in George Romero’s 1963 Nights the Living Dead, […]