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Zombies: A Cultural History

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The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from itsbeginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to become the dominantimage of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse,such as the films 28 Days Later, I Am Legend and World War Z and the phenomenallysuccessful TV series The Walking Dead
Paperback / softback
01-December-2016
224 Pages
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The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse, such as the films 28 Days Later, I Am Legend  and World War Z  and the phenomenally successful TV series The Walking Dead, the zombie has reached its apotheosis. Zombies have infected the cinema of nearly every nation, from France to Australia, Argentina and Brazil to China and Japan.

This absorbing history, now available in paperback, tracks zombies from their emergence in nineteenth-century writings about the Caribbean, through their slow transmission and mutation into the popular pulp fictions of America in the 1920s and '30s, to the arrival of the cinematic zombie, and reveals how after 1945 the walking dead swarmed into comics, pulp novels, b -movie cinema, horror fiction and video games.

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Zombies: A Cultural History

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The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse, such as the films 28 Days Later, I Am Legend  and World War Z  and the phenomenally successful TV series The Walking Dead, the zombie has reached its apotheosis. Zombies have infected the cinema of nearly every nation, from France to Australia, Argentina and Brazil to China and Japan.

This absorbing history, now available in paperback, tracks zombies from their emergence in nineteenth-century writings about the Caribbean, through their slow transmission and mutation into the popular pulp fictions of America in the 1920s and '30s, to the arrival of the cinematic zombie, and reveals how after 1945 the walking dead swarmed into comics, pulp novels, b -movie cinema, horror fiction and video games.

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