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

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

Kyle William Bishop

239 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction dark informative slow-paced
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Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and...

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