American Zombie Gothic

This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the subgenre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as Victor Halperin's "White Zombie", Jacques Tourneur's "I Walked with a Zombie", Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2", Dan O'Bannon's "The Return of the Living Dead", Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later", and, of course, Romero's entire "Dead Series", it establishes the place of Zombies in the Gothic tradition.