Multiple chapters of the 2016 book "The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland" are devoted to analysing aspects of "Shaun of the Dead". Steven Webley's chapter looks at the use of the Uncanny in the film, while Shelley S. Rees' chapter discusses the film's Marxist implications and the transgressive nature of zombies and zombie films in terms of relationships and sexuality. Comparatively, Kathryn A. Cady and Thomas Oates write in their article 'Family Splatters: Rescuing Heteronormativity from the Zombie Apocalypse' that the film "imagines a single-generation heteronormative family as the outcome of zombie invasion".