Zombifying a Nation
Download or Read eBook Zombifying a Nation PDF written by Toni Pressley-Sanon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Toni Pressley-Sanon |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2016-07-19 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781476625843 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1476625840 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Zombifying a Nation by : Toni Pressley-Sanon
Book excerpt: 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 a 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.
