Bibliograph

American zombie gothic, the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture, Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle

Type

Label

American zombie gothic, the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture, Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexIncludes filmography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American zombie gothic

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographiespatent document

Oclc number

607552643

Responsibility statement

Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle

Sub title

the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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