American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
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Book Overview Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of coloni...
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.
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Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 247 | Language: English | Publisher: MCFARLAND & CO INC | ISBN: 0786448067
FormatPaperback
Pages247
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0786448067
EAN9780786448067
PublisherMCFARLAND & CO INC
Publication Date1970-01-01
EditionIllustrated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.75 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.8 Inches
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