American Zombie Gothic

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity.This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the subgenre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as Victor Halperin's White Zombie, Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie, Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, and, of course, Romero's entire "Dead" series, it establishes the place of zombies in the Gothic tradition.Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-02-09
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions to Zombie Studies
Antal sidor247
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786448067

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle Preface Introduction—The Zombie Film and Its Cycles 1—RAISING THE LIVING DEADThe Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie 2—THE RETURN OF THE NATIVEImperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie 3—THE RISE OF THE NEW PARADIGMNight of the Living Dead and the Zombie Invasion Narrative 4—THE DEAD WALK THE EARTHThe Triumph of the Zombie Social Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead 5—HUMANIZING THE LIVING DEADThe Evolution of the Zombie Protagonist Conclusion—The Future Shock of Zombie Cinema Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

“in this seminal study, Bishop navigates well the oil and water-like mix of serious analysis and zombie cinema. It isn’t often that one comes across Marxian dialectics and graphic descriptions of cannibalism in the same paragraph, but Bishop’s understated style makes it work”—Library Journal; “fascinating”—Raising the Undead; “a very complete analysis of the evolution of the zombie in American cinema”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.