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by Kyle William Bishop

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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.

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  • Title American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
  • Author Kyle William Bishop
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson:
  • Date 2010-01-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786448067 / 0786448067
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Zombie films - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009050018
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

About the author

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.

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