Zombifying a Nation
Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Film
| Author: | Toni Pressley-Sanon | ISBN: | 9781476625843 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | Publication: | July 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Toni Pressley-Sanon |
| ISBN: | 9781476625843 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Publication: | July 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
