Zombifying a nation : race, gender and the Haitian Loas on screen / Toni Pressley-Sanon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pressley-Sanon, Toni.

Series:

Contributions to zombie studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zombies in motion pictures.

Zombie films--History and criticism.

Zombie films.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

Summary:

The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929)-during the American occupation of Haiti-still holds cultural currency around the world. This book calls for a rethinking of zombies in a sociopolitical context through the examination of several films, including White Zombie (1932), The Love Wanga (1935), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). A 21st-century film from Haiti, Zombi candidat à la presidence ... ou les amours d'un zombi, is also examined. A reading of Heading South (2005), a film about the female tourist industry in the Caribbean, explores zombification as a consumptive process driven by capitalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie: The Haitian Revolution and White Southern Fears 25

2 The Love Wanga: The American Occupation and Miscegenation 64

3 Heading South and Zombification or "Haiti is open for business" 89

4 The Serpent and the Rainbow and the 1986 Revolution 119

5 Zombi candidat à la présidence ... ou les amours d'un zombi and the Resurgence of La politique de doublure 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786494248

0786494247

OCLC:

948560955