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Zombies
A Cultural History
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See moreThe 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
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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, as well as 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. It 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 by Roger Luckhurst is praised for its detailed and engaging exploration of the zombie's evolution from a colonial myth to its widespread cultural impact today. The book delves into the creature's varied representations over the years, highlighting contributions from diverse figures and media, and its surprising resurgence globally in recent times.
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ISBN: 9781780236698
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Illustration: 54 illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 138.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Roger Luckhurst lives in a post-war utopian social housing estate in inner London and teaches at Birkbeck College, where he is Professor of Modern Literature in the School of Arts. He is the author of Zombies (Reaktion, 2015), and wrote the BFI Classics on Alien and The Shining.
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