American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture - ISBN:0786448067

American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture

Date: 22 April 2011, 08:51

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Zombie movie lovers can rejoice now that Kyle Bishop's book is out. I have for some years now been a long time admirer of the horror movie subgenre, yet it wasn't until doing research for a paper in a Junior contemporary literature class that I encountered Mr. Bishop's work. It had never occurred to me that there was serious scholarly work done on zombie movies, but after reading some of his articles I was not only stunned by his educated and thorough treatment, but also by how much his attention to the topic enriched my own appreciation. He begins with the genesis of zombies and their folkloric roots in Haiti, gradually fleshing out the walking dead up to the present time. Zombies are significant as evolving outside of any established literary tradition as well as being indigenous to the New World (a claim other major horror monsters can't make) A reflexive Haitian voodoo creation while under pressure by the colonial French, eventually zombies "emigrated" to America where their treatment in cinema did little more than reflect postcolonial fears of repressed subjects rising against the ruling class. It wasn't until George Romero with his Night of the Living Dead in 1968 that zombies became an important cultural archetype as the legendary filmmaker used them to expose racism, consumerism, Cold War paranoia, and other societal anxieties. The zombie as significant cultural archetype has a dynamic film history, and Bishop takes you through their evolution in a prose style that is academic but never laborious; indeed, for a dissertation, it's quite a page-turner. I highly recommend this book and without reservation say that it is indispensable for any zombie movie lover.

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