Zombies: A Living History [DVD]

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The zombie also appears as a metaphor in protest songs, symbolizing mindless adherence to authority, particularly that of law enforcement and the armed forces. Well-known examples include Fela Kuti's 1976 album Zombie and the Cranberries' 1994 single " Zombie". There has been a growth in the number of zombie mangas in the first decade of the 21st century, and in a list of "10 Great Zombie Manga", Anime News Network's Jason Thompson placed I Am a Hero at number 1, considering it "probably the greatest zombie manga ever". In second place was Living Corpse, and in third was Biomega, which he called "the greatest science-fiction virus zombie manga ever". [105] During the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were several manga and anime series that humanized zombies by presenting them as protagonists or love interests, such as Sankarea: Undying Love and Is This a Zombie? (both debuted in 2009). Zombies went on to become a popular theme for video games, particularly in the survival horror, stealth, first-person shooter and role-playing game genres. Important horror fiction media franchises in this area include Resident Evil, The House of the Dead, Silent Hill, Dead Rising, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead, Dying Light, State of Decay, The Last of Us and the Zombies game modes from the Call of Duty title series. [114] A series of games has also been released based on the widely popular TV show The Walking Dead, first aired in 2010. In the Dead Rising series, the process of infection is described with the metaphor "The wasp kills the host and takes over body motorfuctions." [ citation needed] The World of Warcraft, first released in 2004, is an early example of a video game in which an individual zombie-like creature could be chosen as a player character (a previous game in the same series, Warcraft III, allowed a player control over an undead army). [ original research?] Dendle, Peter (28 August 2012). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9780786461639.

A variation of the zombie walk is the zombie run. Here participants do a 5km run wearing a belt with several flag "lives". If the chasing zombies capture all of the flags, the runner becomes "infected". If he or she reaches the finish line, which may involve wide detours ahead of the zombies, then the participant is a "survivor". In either case, an appropriate participation medal is awarded. [135] Theoretical academic studies Wilentz, Amy (26 October 2012). "A Zombie Is a Slave Forever". The New York Times. Haiti . Retrieved 31 October 2012. Graves, Zachary (2010) Zombies: The complete guide to the world of the living dead Sphere, London, ISBN 978-1-84744-415-8 The modern conception of the zombie owes itself almost entirely to George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. [1] [66] [67] In his films, Romero "bred the zombie with the vampire, and what he got was the hybrid vigour of a ghoulish plague monster". [68] This entailed an apocalyptic vision of monsters that have come to be known as Romero zombies.

McAlister, Elizabeth (1 January 2012). "Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies". Anthropological Quarterly. 85 (2): 457–486. doi: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021. ISSN 1534-1518. S2CID 144725423. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 . Retrieved 26 August 2020. a b Doris L Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean, Duke University Press, 2005

Wilentz, Amy (December 2011). "Response to "I Walked with a Zombie" ". amywilentz.com . Retrieved 2 February 2018. Several decades after Hurston's work, Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in a 1983 article in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, [37] and later in two popular books: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). a b c Szanter, Ashley; Richards, Jessica K. (24 August 2017). Romancing the Zombie: Essays on the Undead as Significant 'Other' . McFarland. ISBN 9781476667423. a b c Booker, M. Keith (2010). Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Vol.1: A–L. ABC-CLIO. p.662. ISBN 9780313357473.Cronin, Brian (3 December 2008). "John Seavey's Storytelling Engines: George Romero's 'Dead' Films". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008 . Retrieved 4 December 2008. Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing highlighted the link between social and cultural expectations and compulsion, in the context of schizophrenia and other mental illness, suggesting that schizogenesis may account for some of the psychological aspects of zombification. [42] Particularly, this suggests cases where schizophrenia manifests a state of catatonia. Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro, ed. (2011). Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. Fordham University Press. p.169. ISBN 978-0-8232-3447-9.

But Fernandez-Fournier and team noticed that members of this species infected with Zatypota larva exhibited bizarre behavior, leaving their colony to weave tightly-spun, cocoon-like webs in remote locations. Woodard, Ben (2012). Slime Dynamics. Winchester, Washington: Zero Books. p.32. ISBN 978-1-78099-248-8. a b "Zombie" [ permanent dead link], in Oxford English Dictionary Online (subscription required), accessed 23 May 2014. The quotation cited is: "Zombi, the title whereby he [chief of Brazilian natives] was called, is the name for the Deity, in the Angolan tongue."

Artist Jillian McDonald has made several works of video art involving zombies and exhibited them in her 2006 show "Horror Make-Up", which debuted on 8 September 2006 at Art Moving Projects, a gallery in, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [107] Cripps, Charlotte (1 November 2006). "Preview: Max Brooks' Festival of the (Living) Dead! Barbican, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022 . Retrieved 19 September 2008. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word comes from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole word zonbi, and it is akin to the Kimbundu term nzúmbe, which means ghost. a b McAlister, Elizabeth (1995). "A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti". In Cosentino, Donald J. (ed.). Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. Los Angeles, California: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. pp.304–321. ISBN 978-0930741471.

Moreman, Christopher M.; Rushton, Cory James (2011). Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition. McFarland. p.3. ISBN 978-0-7864-5911-7. According to Kim Newman in the book Nightmare Movies (2011), the "zombie revival began in the Far East" during the late 1990s, largely inspired by two Japanese zombie games released in 1996: [74] Capcom's Resident Evil, which started the Resident Evil video game series that went on to sell 24 million copies worldwide by 2006, [73] and Sega's arcade shooter House of the Dead. The success of these two 1996 zombie games inspired a wave of Asian zombie films. [74] From the late 1990s, zombies experienced a renaissance in low-budget Asian cinema, with a sudden spate of dissimilar entries, including Bio Zombie (1998), Wild Zero (1999), Junk (1999), Versus (2000) and Stacy (2001).The word refers to creatures from Haitian folklore that, at its origin, was little more than the ghosts from Western folklore. Mole, Beth (23 July 2012). "Zombies on the Brain: Young Neuroscientists' Popular Zombie Study Frightens Their Advisers Most of All". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2022. The usual subtext of the zombie apocalypse is that civilization is inherently vulnerable to the unexpected, and that most individuals, if desperate enough, cannot be relied on to comply with the author's ethos. The narrative of a zombie apocalypse carries strong connections to the turbulent social landscape of the United States in the 1960s, when Night of the Living Dead provided an indirect commentary on the dangers of conformity, a theme also explored in the novel The Body Snatchers (1954) and associated film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). [91] [92] Many also feel that zombies allow people to deal with their own anxieties about the end of the world. [93] One scholar concluded that "more than any other monster, zombies are fully and literally apocalyptic ... they signal the end of the world as we have known it". [90] While zombie apocalypse scenarios are secular, they follow a religious pattern based on Christian ideas of an end-times war and messiah. [94] Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic" (PDF). Cdc.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013 . Retrieved 5 November 2013. At some point, the man attempted to take his own life. Researchers report that “[h]is suicide note revealed that he wanted to kill himself as he feared spreading a deadly infection to the villagers who resultantly might suffer from cancer.”