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LEADER: 01730nam a22002418a 4500
001 2009050018
003 DLC
005 20091201111601.0
008 091201s2010 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009050018
020 $a9780786448067 (softcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPN1995.9.Z63$bB52 2010
082 00 $a791.43/675$222
100 1 $aBishop, Kyle William,$d1973-
245 10 $aAmerican Zombie Gothic :$bthe rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture /$cKyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c2010.
263 $a1001
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes filmography.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the zombie film and its cycles. Raising the living dead : the folkloric and ideological origins of the voodoo zombie -- The return of the native -- Imperialist hegemony and the cinematic voodoo zombie -- the rise of the new paradigm, Night of the living dead and the zombie invasion narrative -- The dead walk the earth : the triumph of the zombie social metaphor in dawn of the dead -- Humanizing the living dead : the evolution of the zombie protagonist -- Conclusion : the future shock of zombie cinema.