Zombie Cinema

Informationen zum Autor IAN OLNEY is an associate professor of English at York College of Pennsylvania in York. He is the author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture .   Klappentext Charts the transformation zombies into pop culture icons, exploring their enormous appeal to viewers in the twenty-first century. It traces the evolution of the living dead on film, and surveys the present cinematic landscape, in which zombies have overrun every imaginable genre from the indie comedy to the teen romance. The book also maps the recent outbreaks of zombies on television. Zusammenfassung Charts the transformation zombies into pop culture icons, exploring their enormous appeal to viewers in the twenty-first century. It traces the evolution of the living dead on film, and surveys the present cinematic landscape, in which zombies have overrun every imaginable genre from the indie comedy to the teen romance. The book also maps the recent outbreaks of zombies on television. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Our Zombies, Ourselves 1    Black Mask, White Zombies 2    Consumer Culture 3    Boy Eats Girl Conclusion: Homebodies Further Reading Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Ian Olney
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780813589466
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8946-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popula; Quick Takes: Movies and Popula; Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture; Quick Takes: Movies & Popular Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet