{"id":46094,"date":"2016-03-18T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46094"},"modified":"2016-03-18T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:47:53","slug":"good-girls-dont-date-dead-boys-toying-with-miscegenation-in-zombie-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46094","title":{"rendered":"Good Girls Don&#8217;t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01956051.2014.881772\" target=\"_blank\">Good Girls Don&#8217;t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/vjpf20\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/vjpf20\/42\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 42, Issue 4<\/a>, 2014<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01956051.2014.881772\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01956051.2014.881772<\/a><br \/>\npages 176-185<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clas.wayne.edu\/ckee\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chera Kee<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Concerning in-between bodies, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie\" target=\"_blank\">zombie<\/a> films have a unique vantage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic comedies, it becomes clear that whereas earlier films shut down symbolic interracial fantasies, contemporary films do not. This isn&#8217;t without problems, as some films still rescue zombies from zombiness (and hence, their blackness).<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01956051.2014.881772\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Girls Don&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8],"tags":[23256,6780,10953],"class_list":["post-46094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-chera-kee","tag-journal-of-popular-film-and-television","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46095,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions\/46095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}