Zombies: A Cultural History Roger Luckhurst

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Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, gives a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.

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Zombies: A Cultural History: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst

Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.

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Luckhurst s wide-ranging history of this cult phenomenon is a richly detailed and eminently readable, nuanced, and rigorous story. He outlines the different shapes the complex, colonially driven monster takes in its century-long journey through the imperial American sub-Zeitgeist including its surprising global resurrection in the new millennium. Everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to 1950s pulp comics to esoteric space scientists and Kirkman had a hand in fashioning the imaginary creature we know today as the zombie. --Victoria Nelson, author of Gothicka and The Secret Life of Puppets

About Roger Luckhurst

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He has written and edited many books on film, horror, science fiction and gothic literature, most recently Alien (BFI Film Classics, 2014), The Shining (BFI Film Classics, 2013) and The Mummy's Curse: A True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012).

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GOR011054571

ISBN 13

9781780236698

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1780236697

Title

Zombies: A Cultural History: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst

Author

Roger Luckhurst

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Reaktion Books

Year published

2016-09-01

Number of pages

224

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins