Zombies: A Cultural History: A Cultural History
Roger Luckhurst
List price £11.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781780236698
- Published:
- 01 Sep 2016
- Publisher:
- Reaktion Books
- Dimensions:
- 224 pages - 216 x 138 x 18mm
- Number of Illustrations:
- 54 illustrations
- Availability:
- Available
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Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.
Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, gives a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.
Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He has written and edited many books on film, horror, science fiction and gothic literature, most recently Alien (BFI Film Classics, 2014), The Shining (BFI Film Classics, 2013) and The Mummy's Curse: A True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012).