Ebook: American Zombie Gothic: the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture
Author: Bishop Kyle William
- Tags: PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference, Zombie films--History and criticism, Zombie films, Criticism interpretation etc, Zombie films -- History and criticism, PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: McFarland Publishing
- City: Jefferson;N.C
- Language: English
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"This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition. Closely examining influential works 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 Zombies in Gothic tradition"--Provided by publisher.;Introduction : the zombie film and its cycles. Raising the living dead : the folkloric and ideological origins of the voodoo zombie -- The return of the native : imperialist hegemony and the cinematic voodoo zombie -- The rise of the new paradigm : Night of the living dead and the zombie invasion narrative -- The dead walk the earth : the triumph of the zombie social metaphor in Dawn of the dead -- Humanizing the living dead : the evolution of the zombie protagonist -- Conclusion : the future shock of zombie cinema.
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