Not your average zombie : rehumanizing the undead from voodoo to zombie walks /

<P>The zombie apocalypse hasn?t happened?yet?but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In <i>Not Your Average Zom...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kee, Chera (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Zombies > History > Social aspects.
Zombies > Psychological aspects.
Zombies in motion pictures.
Zombies in literature.
Zombies in popular culture.
Humanity.
Human beings.
Caring.
Zombies > Histoire > Aspect social.
Zombies > Aspect psychologique.
Zombies au cinéma.
Zombies dans la littérature.
Zombies dans la culture populaire.
Humanité (Morale)
Homme.
Homo sapiens (species)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. From the zombi to the zombie : the extra-ordinary undead
  • From cannibals to dead men working in the cane fields : Haiti, vodou, and early zombie films
  • Racialized and raceless : race-after-death and zombie revolution
  • "You can't hurt me. You can't destroy me. You can't control me" : white women in zombie films
  • A proud and powerful line : women of color and voodoo
  • "Be safe. Have fun. Eat brains." playing the zombie in video games
  • I walked with a zombie : performing the living dead
  • Conclusion. "I think I'm dead."

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