It's official: the zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have
been lurking in media and popular culture since the 1930s, but they
have never been more popular or ubiquitous on screen than they are
today. Zombies have colonized the movies, television, video games,
the internet-even smartphones-and the invitation shows no sign of
ending soon. Our hunger for them, like hunger for us, seems
insatiable. Zombie Cinema charts the transformation of these horror
film monsters into pop culture icons, exploring their enormous
appeal to views in the twenty-first century. It traces the
evolution of the living dead on film from the voodoo slaves of
White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie to the reanimated ghouls of
Night of the Living Dead and Zombie Flesh Eaters to the rabid
infected of 28 Days Later and World War Z, and surveys the present
cinematic landscape, in which zombies have overrun every imaginable
genre from the indie comedy, Zombieland, to the teen romance, Warm
Bodies, to the animated children's movie, Paranorman. The book also
maps the recent outbreaks of zombies on television, in hit shows
like The Walking Dead and Dead Set, and points to signs of an
impending apocalypse in new media, including video games, Left 4
Dead, web series, Bite Me, and smartphone apps, Plants vs. Zombies.
Zombie Cinema is a lively and accessible introduction to this
massively popular genre. It offers an historical overview of
zombies on screen that is both wide-ranging and global in scope.
Surveying movies and television shows from North America, Europe,
Asia, and elsewhere, it covers the "greatest hits" of zombie cinema
as well as forgotten, unsung, or less familiar texts.
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