Zombie Holocaust How The Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture TP

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"The zombies have taken over. These formerly marginal folklore figures have achieved the status of a pop cultural phenomenon. Film, television, literature, music, comic books, computer games - no contemporary medium has escaped the clammy grasp of the undead, whose mindless herd mentality reflects the modern nightmare.

ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST is an illustrated history of one of our strangest and most pervasive fictional archetypes: the shambling, stalking living dead. From the mentally enslaved Haitian cane-field workers described in early 20th-century travelogues to the savagely violent, cannibalistic mobs of George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and beyond, the zombie has undergone an eye-popping metamorphosis.

As apocalyptic zombie narratives exert a stronger and more lucrative hold on the public imagination than ever before, this unique volume charts the zombie's evolution from local myth to global movement, and examines the cultural basis of its strange endurance."