American Zombie Gothic
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American Zombie Gothic
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Author : Kyle William Bishop
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-03-08
American Zombie Gothic written by Kyle William Bishop and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-08 with Performing Arts categories.
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. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
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Author : Kyle William Bishop
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-10-02
How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture written by Kyle William Bishop and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a “Zombie Renaissance,” beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve as models for concepts in economics, political theory, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and astronomy. They are powerful, multifarious metaphors representing fears of contagion and doom but also isolation and abandonment, as well as troubling aspects of human cruelty, public spectacle and abusive relationships. This critical examination of the 21st-century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde.
Romancing The Zombie
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Author : Ashley Szanter
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-10-06
Romancing The Zombie written by Ashley Szanter and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-06 with Performing Arts categories.
The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristics transform. This collection of new essays examines the latest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The authors discuss our increasingly sympathetic view of the reanimated dead as more than physical bodies devoid of life and personality. Their essays cover a range of topics, including audience obsession with Apocalyptic love; the problem of a kinder, gentler undead; the millennial reinvention of the "sexy zombie"; and "uncanny valley romance."
The Subversive Zombie
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Author : Elizabeth Aiossa
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-02-09
The Subversive Zombie written by Elizabeth Aiossa and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with Art categories.
Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dramatically. The undead are fast and ferocious in 28 Days Later... (2002) and World War Z (2013). In Warm Bodies (2013) and In the Flesh (2013-2015), they are thoughtful, sensitive and capable of empathy. These sometimes radically different depictions of the undead (and the still living) suggest critical inquiries: What does it mean to be human? What makes a monster? Who survives the zombie apocalypse, and why? Focusing on classic and current movies and TV shows, the author reveals how the once-subversive modern zombie, now more popular than ever, has been co-opted by the mainstream culture industry.
Beyond The Living Dead
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Author : Bruce Peabody
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-09-13
Beyond The Living Dead written by Bruce Peabody and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games. Romero's creativity and enduring influence make him a worthy object of inquiry in his own right, and his long career helps us take stock of the shifting interest in zombies since the 1960s. Examining his work promotes a better understanding of the current state of the zombie and where it is going amidst the political and social turmoil of the twenty-first century. These new essays document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the still-budding Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives from such fields as literature, political science, philosophy, and comparative film studies. Essays consider some of the sources of Romero's inspiration (including comics, science fiction, and Westerns), chart his influence as a storyteller and a social critic, and consider the legacy he leaves for viewers, artists, and those studying the living dead.
Living With Zombies
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Author : Chase Pielak
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Living With Zombies written by Chase Pielak and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.
Zombifying A Nation
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Author : Toni Pressley-Sanon
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-07-19
Zombifying A Nation written by Toni Pressley-Sanon and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with Performing Arts categories.
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 à la présidence ... 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.
Better Off Dead
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Author : Deborah Christie
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2011
Better Off Dead written by Deborah Christie and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
What has the zombie metaphor meant in the past? Why does it continue to be, so prevalent in our culture? This collection seeks to provide an archaeology of the zombietracing its lineage from Haiti, mapping its various cultural transformations, and suggesting the post-humanist direction in which the zombie is ultimately heading.
Zombies
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Author : Roger Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Zombies written by Roger Luckhurst and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as 28 Days Later, World War Z, and the outrageously successful comic book, TV series, and video game—The Walking Dead. In this brain-gripping history, Roger Luckhurst traces the permutations of the zombie through our culture and imaginations, examining the undead’s ability to remain defiantly alive. Luckhurst follows a trail that leads from the nineteenth-century Caribbean, through American pulp fiction of the 1920s, to the middle of the twentieth century, when zombies swarmed comic books and movie screens. From there he follows the zombie around the world, tracing the vectors of its infectious global spread from France to Australia, Brazil to Japan. Stitching together materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writings, colonial histories, popular literature and cinema, medical history, and cultural theory, Zombies is the definitive short introduction to these restless pulp monsters.
Reading The Great American Zombie
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Author : T. May Stone
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-08-02
Reading The Great American Zombie written by T. May Stone and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Challenging the human understanding of life and death, the zombie figure represents a fragmentation of personhood. From its earliest appearances in literature, the zombie characterized a human being that was no longer an indivisible whole, embodying the ontological debate over which elements of personhood are most uniquely human. Through its literary evolution, the zombie's missing element gradually approached a finer definition, as narratives moved beyond highlighting metaphysically opaque concepts like "soul" or "will." Studying over a century of American literary history, this book explores how zombies translate cultural concepts and definitions of personhood. Chapters detail how literary zombies have long presented narratives of American cultural self-examination.