TY - BOOK AU - Bishop,Kyle William TI - American Zombie Gothic : : the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture / SN - 9780786448067 AV - PN1995.9.Z63 B52 2010 U1 - 791.43/675 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Jefferson, N.C. : PB - McFarland & Co. KW - Zombis KW - Història i crítica KW - lemac KW - Zombies in motion pictures KW - CIENCIA FICCIÓN KW - SCIENCE FICTION KW - LITERATURA KW - LITERATURE N1 - Inclou referències bibliogràfiques, índex i filmografia.; Introduction : 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 N2 - "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. ER -