American Zombie Gothic: the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead in popular culture

Introduction : the zombie film and its cycles. Raising the living dead : the folkloric and ideological origins of the voodoo zombie

The return of the native : imperialist hegemony and the cinematic voodoo zombie

The rise of the new paradigm : Night of the living dead and the zombie invasion narrative

The dead walk the earth : the triumph of the zombie social metaphor in Dawn of the dead

Humanizing the living dead : the evolution of the zombie protagonist

Conclusion : the future shock of zombie cinema.