American Zombie Gothic
Subtitle: the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture
By: Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780786448067
Subjects: Zombie films -- History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the zombie film and its cycles. Raising the living dead : the folkloric and ideological origins of the voodoo zombie; title: The return of the native; title: Imperialist hegemony and the cinematic voodoo zombie; title: the rise of the new paradigm, Night of the living dead and the zombie invasion narrative; title: The dead walk the earth : the triumph of the zombie social metaphor in dawn of the dead; title: Humanizing the living dead : the evolution of the zombie protagonist; title: Conclusion : the future shock of zombie cinema.