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Producing the American zombie film: A sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Producing the American zombie film: A sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre./
Author:	Platts, Todd.
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-03A(E).
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3576033
ISBN:	9781303552748

Producing the American zombie film: A sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre.
Platts, Todd.

Producing the American zombie film: A sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre. - 251 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 2013.

This dissertation integrates three literatures in the sociological epistemology of culture to historiographically document the evolution of zombie cinema from its cinematic genesis in White Zombie (1932) to its pyrrhic institutionalization in Dawn of the Dead (1978). Hitherto, a majority of scholars interested in zombie films, explicitly or implicitly, employ variations of societal reflection orientations to unsheathe the walking dead as "barometer[s] of cultural anxiety" (Dendle 2007: 45). At their best these approaches demonstrate how diachronic constructs of zombies draw from extant cultural anxieties in order to reflect them back to audiences who often seek symbolic resolutions for those concerns. However, this knowledge is gained at the elision of examining both the culture industries responsible for the creation of all cinematic fare (cf. Peterson and Anand 2004) and the internal cultural ecology of zombies that affords rampant reimaginings of the creatures (cf. Kaufman 2004).

ISBN: 9781303552748Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Producing the American zombie film: A sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre.
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520 $a This project, then, explores the convergence of reflectionist understandings, production approaches, and endogenous accounts in the evolution of zombie cinema from 'white' zombies to 'night' zombies by developing three sensitizing concepts (Blumer 1954): opportunity space, transition capacity, and endogenous genre ecology. While applied zombie films, the concepts---in their integration of three disparate research traditions---are general in orientation and therefore contribute to the corpus of sociology.
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