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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia

Autor: Peter Dendle

Número de Páginas: 261

Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.

Las malas lenguas

Autor: Juan Domingo Argüelles

Número de Páginas: 635

¿Autosustentable?, ¿campus universitario?, ¿acceso de entrada?, ¿gente de color?, ¿adulto en plenitud?, ¿todos y todas?, ¿transgénero?, ¿nosotr@s?, ¿introducir al interior?, ¿roomie?, ¿socialité?, ¿stablishment? Las malas lenguas es un irónico y mordaz recorrido por varios errores comunes que circulan en libros, periódicos, revistas e internet. Son efectos de lo políticamente correcto, los extranjerismos mal adaptados, el "lenguaje incluyente" y las malas traducciones, que han hecho de nuestra lengua un verdadero desastre. En esta obra, Juan Domingo Argüelles repasa las redundancias, los errores de conjugación, la mala pronunciación, la falta de concordancia y otros deslices que cometemos tanto hablantes cultos como los de menor escolarización. Además hace una fuerte crítica a las instituciones encargadas de normar la lengua que resultan retrógradas y poco competentes, ofrecen malas definiciones y omiten del diccionario entradas necesarias y muy usadas en México y América Latina. Un libro para evitar las barbaridades que decimos y escribimos en español.

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010

Autor: Peter Dendle

Número de Páginas: 293

This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.

Race, Oppression and the Zombie

Autor: Christopher M. Moreman , Cory James Rushton

Número de Páginas: 242

The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a metaphor for "the other," a participant in narratives of life and death, good and evil, and of a fate worse than death--the state of being "undead." This book explores the phenomenon from its roots in Haitian folklore to its evolution on the silver screen and to its radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines here examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more--including potential signs that the zombie hordes may have finally achieved oversaturation. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

White Zombie

Autor: Gary D. Rhodes

Número de Páginas: 361

The 1932 horror film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi has received controversial attention from film reviewers and scholars--but it is unarguably a cult classic worthy of study. This book analyzes the film text from nearly every possible viewpoint, using both academic and popular film theories. Also supplied is an extensive intellectual history of the predecessor works to White Zombie, as well as information on the significance it carried for subsequent books and films, its theatrical release around the country, its modern cultural influence, and the attempts to restore the film to its original state. Other noteworthy features of this work include an in-depth biography of White Zombie director Victor Halperin, the first complete study of his life and career, and 244 images and photographs.

Zombie Movies

Autor: Glenn Kay

Número de Páginas: 466

Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to the AMC series The Walking Dead — this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema's most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a zombie, go behind the scenes with a chilling production diary from Land of the Dead, peruse a bizarre list of the oddest things ever seen in undead cinema, and immerse themselves in a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made. Containing an illustrated zombie rating system, ranging from "Highly Recommended" to "Avoid at All Costs" and "So Bad It's Good," the book also features lengthy interviews with numerous talents from in front of and behind the camera. This updated and expanded second edition contains more than 100 new and rediscovered films, providing plenty of informative and entertaining brain food for movie fans.

The Search for Zombie Consciousness and Agency in AMC’s "The Walking Dead"

Autor: Gernot Meyer

Número de Páginas: 26

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Bielefeld University (Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft: Anglistik), course: Modulprüfung (Profilmodul 2 – British Studies), language: English, abstract: Zombies are - considering the significant amount of media input – nearly all around us. What was once a niche genre, has long spread and entered the public consciousness and pop culture through a variety of movies and, more recently, through one very successful TV series adaption of a comic series, "The Walking Dead" (2010) and its recent spinoff, "Fear the Walking Dead" (2015). Video game series like Left 4 Dead or Dead Island likewise increased the ever-growing stack of zombie productions. And whereas there were few or no academic works specifically about zombies in the past, there is now a considerable part of academia that explores and observes the zombie from many different angles. There are works which examine the zombie culture according to philosophical, religious, historical, political or even environmental points of view. One issue that is being explored in these works is the question...

Zombies

Autor: Vincent Paris

Número de Páginas: 105

«Vincent Paris réussit le tour de force de prendre les zombies au sérieux sans jamais prendre ses lecteurs pour des créatures décérébrées. Comme dans les meilleurs films de zombies, son essai-fiction contient des descriptions apocalyptiques à vous faire dresser les cheveux sur la tête. Et il prend les mortsvivants comme prétexte pour parler essentiellement de... nous-mêmes.» Samuel Archibald «À l’heure de parler des morts-vivants, la sociologie est sans doute l’une des disciplines les plus appropriées – car s’il est possible de tout et rien dire sur ce phénomène, il est au moins une affirmation que l’on puisse faire sans risquer de se tromper: un zombie ne vient jamais seul. Le mort-vivant, bestiole sociale entre toutes.» Nicolas Dickner

Original and Remake: “Dawn of the Dead” by George A. Romero (1978) and “Dawn of the Dead” by Zack Snyder (2004)

Autor: Anna Zafiris

Número de Páginas: 10

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,6, Utrecht University (Media Studies), course: Remakes & Parody, language: English, abstract: “Dawn of the Dead”, which is also known as “Dawn of the Living Dead” and “Zombie: Dawn of the Dead” or “Zombie”, was issued in 1978. The director George A. Romero added to the title the tagline “When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth”. It is hard to match this movie with only one genre because there are aspects of horror, drama, thriller and splatter in it (this applies also for the remake). The movie originally was part of Romero’s zombie-series including “Night of the Living Dead”, that appeared in 1968, “Dawn of the Dead” and “Day of the Dead” from 1985. A forth movie “The Land of the Dead” is in preproduction. Apart from “Dawn of the Dead” another movie from this series was remade in 1990, namely “Night of the Living Dead” by Tom Savini, who also took part in the more famous movie “Dawn of the Dead”, both in the original movie and the remake.

Zombies, Lilliputians & Sadists

Autor: Boris Frankel

Número de Páginas: 344

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Autor: Ricardo J. Caballero , Takeo Hoshi , Anil K. Kashyap

Número de Páginas: 130

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in their inspections. To facilitate this forbearance the banks often engaged in sham loan restructurings that kept credit flowing to otherwise insolvent borrowers (that we call zombies). Thus, the normal competitive outcome whereby the zombies would shed workers and lose market share was thwarted. Our model highlights the restructuring implications of the zombie problem. The counterpart of the congestion created by the zombies is a reduction of the profits for healthy firms, which discourages their entry and investment. In this context, even solvent banks will not find good lending opportunities. We confirm our story's key predictions that zombie-dominated industries exhibit more depressed job creation and destruction, and lower productivity. We present firm-level regressions showing that the increase in zombies depressed the investment and employment growth of non-zombies and widened the...

Dance Lessons for Zombies

Autor: Peter Hiett

Número de Páginas: 292

"Compelling book on how to live out our faith in a fresh new way"--Provided by publisher.

Zombie Train

Autor: David Macinnis Gill

Número de Páginas: 247

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill’s middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago’s The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth will lose themselves in this page-turning, spine-chilling, and sometimes hilarious survival story. Wyatt has been riding out the zombie apocalypse on his crew’s cobbled-together train for what feels like forever. It’s a hopeless journey, the train running a loop that covers thousands of miles across the western U.S. But when a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a so-called Nirvana and a potential cure for the zombie parasite, Wyatt must decide between searching for the cure and protecting those entrusted in his care. David Macinnis Gill’s Zombie Train is a compelling survival story full of action, suspense, and plenty of zombies. Filled with both harrowing and humorous moments, Zombie Train follows an eccentric cast of characters as they contend with a changing world and shifting loyalties and friendships, and as they fight to remain in control—of their lives and of the future.

Z is for Zombie

Autor: Mel Gilden

Número de Páginas: 100

Danny Keegan and his monster friends discover a new pizza parlor that is staffed by dancing zombies, one of whom looks suspiciously like their favorite teacher.

Religion of Jamaican Negroes

Autor: Joseph Graessle Moore

Número de Páginas: 604

The Dead That Walk

Autor: Stephen Jones

Número de Páginas: 322

THE DEAD WALK AMONG US! Of all the ghoulish monsters, zombies are the most horrific. Reanimated corpses of real people - perhaps even a former friend or relative - these undead brethren rise from the grave to devour your delicious living flesh.Far more sophisticated than the brain-eating mobs popularized in movies, zombies are as diverse as living humans, and this collection presents a frightening blood-rich cross section of zombie literature, including stories set in the early 19th century, the Great Depression and the futuristic zombie apocalypse of tomorrow.Bringing together the greatest zombie authors - Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe Hill and many others - The Dead That Walk offers terrifying tales of dread that will drag you screaming into a nightmare world where death does not mean the end, and those who survive are next on the menu.

2003 Japan Conference

Número de Páginas: 26

Kids Everything Monsters

Autor: Shannon R Turlington

Número de Páginas: 148

Guaranteed to send shivers up the spine, this compendium covers a wide range of ancient legends of vampires, mummies, ghosts, werewolves, gremlins, zombies, and other frightening creatures. Two-color with puzzles and activities throughout. Dedicated Web site.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Autor: Jack Sullivan

Número de Páginas: 522

For the first time ever, in a single volume, a comprehensive guide to horror and the supernatural in all the arts ... More than 50 essays and 600 entries covering authors, composers, visual artists, directors, actors, and movies that are connected in some way to horror tales or the supernatural. Also defines terms used with the supernatural.

TimeSplitters

Autor: Michael Searle , Mike Searle

Número de Páginas: 132

Make every second count! - Detailed tactics and maps for all single- and multiplayer missions - Cheat codes revealed - Every enemy position revealed - Xbox Live online tips - Essential strategies for each time period - Expert combat training and advanced tactics for single- and multiplayer battles