{"product_id":"zombifying-a-nation-race-gender-and-the-haitian-loas-on-screen-9780786494248","title":"Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Toni Pressley-Sanon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Island\u003c\/i\u003e (1929)--during the American occupation of Haiti--still holds cultural currency around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book calls for a rethinking of zombies in a sociopolitical context through the examination of several films, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e (1932), \u003ci\u003eThe Love Wanga\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), \u003ci\u003eI Walked with a Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e (1943) and \u003ci\u003eThe Serpent and the Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). A 21st-century film from Haiti, \u003ci\u003eZombi candidat a la presidence ... ou les amours d'un zombi\u003c\/i\u003e, is also examined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A reading of \u003ci\u003eHeading South\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), a film about the female tourist industry in the Caribbean, explores zombification as a consumptive process driven by capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46496882262167,"sku":"9780786494248","price":2823.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786494248.webp?v=1769179173","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/zombifying-a-nation-race-gender-and-the-haitian-loas-on-screen-9780786494248","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}