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Informationen zum Autor Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City! Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition! starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the genre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as I Walked with a Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle Preface Introduction-The Zombie Film and Its Cycles 1-RAISING THE LIVING DEADThe Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie 2-THE RETURN OF THE NATIVEImperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie 3-THE RISE OF THE NEW PARADIGMNight of the Living Dead and the Zombie Invasion Narrative 4-THE DEAD WALK THE EARTHThe Triumph of the Zombie Social Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead 5-HUMANIZING THE LIVING DEADThe Evolution of the Zombie Protagonist Conclusion-The Future Shock of Zombie Cinema Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
