| Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen Contributor(s): Pressley-Sanon, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786494247 ISBN-13: 9780786494248 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2016025524 |
| Series: Contributions to Zombie Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.65 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929)--during the American occupation of Haiti--still holds cultural currency around the world. This book calls for a rethinking of zombies in a sociopolitical context through the examination of several films, including White Zombie (1932), The Love Wanga (1935), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). A 21st-century film from Haiti, Zombi candidat a la presidence ... ou les amours d'un zombi, is also examined. A reading of Heading South (2005), a film about the female tourist industry in the Caribbean, explores zombification as a consumptive process driven by capitalism. |