Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“in this seminal study, Bishop navigates well the oil and water-like mix of serious analysis and zombie cinema. It isn’t often that one comes across Marxian dialectics and graphic descriptions of cannibalism in the same paragraph, but Bishop’s understated style makes it work”—Library Journal; “fascinating”—Raising the Undead; “a very complete analysis of the evolution of the zombie in American cinema”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle      Preface      Introduction—The Zombie Film and Its Cycles      1—RAISING THE LIVING DEADThe Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie      2—THE RETURN OF THE NATIVEImperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie      3—THE RISE OF THE NEW PARADIGMNight of the Living Dead and the Zombie Invasion Narrative      4—THE DEAD WALK THE EARTHThe Triumph of the Zombie Social Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead      5—HUMANIZING THE LIVING DEADThe Evolution of the Zombie Protagonist      Conclusion—The Future Shock of Zombie Cinema      Filmography      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“in this seminal study, Bishop navigates well the oil and water-like mix of serious analysis and zombie cinema. It isn’t often that one comes across Marxian dialectics and graphic descriptions of cannibalism in the same paragraph, but Bishop’s understated style makes it work”—Library Journal; “fascinating”—Raising the Undead; “a very complete analysis of the evolution of the zombie in American cinema”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle      Preface      Introduction—The Zombie Film and Its Cycles      1—RAISING THE LIVING DEADThe Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie      2—THE RETURN OF THE NATIVEImperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie      3—THE RISE OF THE NEW PARADIGMNight of the Living Dead and the Zombie Invasion Narrative      4—THE DEAD WALK THE EARTHThe Triumph of the Zombie Social Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead      5—HUMANIZING THE LIVING DEADThe Evolution of the Zombie Protagonist      Conclusion—The Future Shock of Zombie Cinema      Filmography      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program Director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.

“in this seminal study, Bishop navigates well the oil and water-like mix of serious analysis and zombie cinema. It isn’t often that one comes across Marxian dialectics and graphic descriptions of cannibalism in the same paragraph, but Bishop’s understated style makes it work”—Library Journal; “fascinating”—Raising the Undead; “a very complete analysis of the evolution of the zombie in American cinema”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle      Preface      Introduction—The Zombie Film and Its Cycles      1—RAISING THE LIVING DEADThe Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie      2—THE RETURN OF THE NATIVEImperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie      3—THE RISE OF THE NEW PARADIGMNight of the Living Dead and the Zombie Invasion Narrative      4—THE DEAD WALK THE EARTHThe Triumph of the Zombie Social Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead      5—HUMANIZING THE LIVING DEADThe Evolution of the Zombie Protagonist      Conclusion—The Future Shock of Zombie Cinema      Filmography      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index