Tag: zombies

  • Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772 pages 176-185 Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic…

  • Look! A Zombie! Race and Passing in ‘iZombie’ PopMatters 2015-10-30 Rukmini Pande University of Western Australia iZombie’s “passing” narrative complicates its broader racial politics. As the fall season of US TV swings into gear, the CW’s undead caper iZombie seems poised for an interesting second outing. Helmed by Rob Thomas (of Veronica Mars fame), the…

  • “Western Zombies and Their Killers: Exceptionalism, the Empty West, and Mixed Race Families” a lecture by Dr. Anne Hyde Colorado State University Cherokee Park Ballroom, Lory Student Center Fort Collins, Colorado 2014-12-04, 16:30-18:30 MST (Local Time) Please join us for a public lecture and book signing/reception by Dr. Anne Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of…

  • Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…

  • Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs In Media Res 2009-10-01 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University Insofar as they occupy the symbolic place of messiah in these zombie apocalypses, it interesting that from Ben in Night, to Peter in Dawn, and John in Day, to Robert Neville…

  • Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Anthropological Quarterly Volume 85, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 457-486 DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies. This essay shows…