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- Title
Memento mori: o zumbi no Gótico americano.
- Authors
de Sá, Daniel Serravalle
- Abstract
This article aims at discussing the development of the zombie within the context of the American Gothic, with an emphasis on film productions of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is argued here that zombies function as highly malleable cultural metaphor; they are able to reflect a range of socio-political issues which depend on specific historical periods. More broadly, the article discusses how the zombie symbolizes a permanent human concern with body decay and death. Based on filmmakers like Victor Halperin, George Romero, Joe Dante, and theoretical as June Pulliam, Kyle Bishop and Elspeth Probyn, I argue that zombies are is an original character of the Gothic in the American continent, whose roots are not part of the European Gothic.
- Publication
Revista Soletras, 2014, Issue 27, p207
- ISSN
1519-7778
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/soletras.2014.9275