Zombifying a Nation

Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen

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de Toni Pressley-Sanon

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Horror

Mots Clés

horror, zombies, racial issues

Année d'édition

2016

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Collection

Contributions to Zombie Studies

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 200 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-9424-8

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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 présidence … 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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Toni Pressley-Sanon is an assistant professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Revue de Presse:
"The sociocultural and historical framework Pressley-Sanon structures her text on is one of the book’s many attractions, making it equally fascinating across disciplines…remarkable"—H-Net Reviews.

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