Research Catalog

Title

American Zombie Gothic : the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture / Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle.

Author

Bishop, Kyle William, 1973-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.

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Details

Description

vii, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Zombie films > History and criticism
• Zombies in motion pictures
• Zombies in popular culture

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
• Includes filmography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780786448067 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786448067 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009050018

OCLC

• 472793645
• SCSB-12499861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library