Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
Reihe: Contributions to Zombie Studies
ISBN: 978-0-7864-9424-8
Verlag: McFarland
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.
