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American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
Contributor(s): Bishop, Kyle William (Author)
ISBN: 0786448067     ISBN-13: 9780786448067
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - Genres - Horror
- Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 791.43
LCCN: 2009050018
Series: Contributions to Zombie Studies
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 247 pages
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Bishop, Kyle William: - Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.