Dead, White and Blue : The Zombie and American National Identity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clayton, Aaron W.

Series:

Contributions to Zombie Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zombies in motion pictures.

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.

Zombies in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Zombies on television.

National characteristics, American, on television.

Mass media and nationalism--United States.

Mass media and nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"Science fiction and horror television shows predict how the world might be different if zombies were real, or if artificial intelligence could develop consciousness. Pop culture critics reveal that these not-quite humans are often proxies for race, and the post-apocalyptic landscapes set the stage for reimagining social and political institutions. This book advances horror scholarship by placing those stories within a long tradition of mythologizing U.S. history. It demonstrates how Disney's Zombies reenacts the civil rights movement, how The Walking Dead fulfills Thoreau's fantasy against the backdrop of founding a new nation, and how Westworld permits visitors to experience the Old West while bearing witness to Indian Removal. Each of these narratives imagines a future that retells the past. The chapters within look at that tradition in order to understand the present."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A modell of Christian empire

Figural 1893

American mythanthrope

Modern dead

The magic island of Seabrook High

Posthuman zombies.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Clayton, Aaron W. Dead, White and Blue

ISBN:

9781476650272

OCLC:

1380463472