Zombies: A Cultural History

A Cultural History

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Roger Luckhurst

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He has written and edited many books on film, horror, science fiction and gothic literature, most recently Alien (BFI Film Classics, 2014), The Shining (BFI Film Classics, 2013) and The Mummy's Curse: A True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012).

Release date NZ

September 1st, 2016

Author

Roger Luckhurst

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

54 illustrations

Pages

224

Dimensions

138x216x18

ISBN-13

9781780236698

Product ID

24410493

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