Zombie Cinema / Ian Olney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olney, Ian, author.

Series:

Quick takes: movies and popular culture.

Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zombie films--History and criticism.

Zombie films.

Zombies in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It's official: the zombie apocalypse is here. The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been as ubiquitous or as widely-embraced as they are today. Zombie Cinema is a lively and accessible introduction to this massively popular genre. Presenting a historical overview of zombie appearances in cinema and on television, Ian Olney also considers why, more than any other horror movie monster, zombies have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences. Surveying the landmarks of zombie film and TV, from White Zombie to The Walking Dead, the book also offers unique insight into why zombies have gone global, spreading well beyond the borders of American and European cinema to turn up in films from countries as far-flung as Cuba, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Nigeria. Both fun and thought-provoking, Zombie Cinema will give readers a new perspective on our ravenous hunger for the living dead.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Our Zombies, Ourselves

1. Black Mask, White Zombies

2. Consumer Culture

3. Boy Eats Girl

Conclusion Homebodies

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Works Cited

Index

About The Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780813579481

0813579481

9780813579498

081357949X

OCLC:

982958236