Zombies: A Living History [DVD]

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In 2014, researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at Aix–Marseille Université in France dug a fascinating organism out of the Siberian permafrost: a so-called giant virus, about 30,000 years old, which they named Pithovirus sibericum. a b c d Levin, Josh (19 December 2007). "How did movie zombies get so fast?". Slate.com . Retrieved 5 November 2013. a b c d e f Maçek III, J. C. (15 June 2012). "The Zombification Family Tree: Legacy of the Living Dead". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Not the best documentary on the topic on zombies, but the historical part of the documentary was interesting. Forget, Thomas (2007) Introducing Zombies Rosen Publishing, New York, ISBN 1-4042-0852-6; (juvenile)

Flint, David (2008) Zombie Holocaust: How the living dead devoured pop culture Plexus, London, ISBN 978-0-85965-397-8 At the same time, starting from the mid-2000s, a new type of zombie film has been growing in popularity: the one in which zombies are portrayed as humanlike in appearance and behavior, retaining the personality traits they had in life, and becoming friends or even romantic partners for humans rather than a threat to humanity. Notable examples of human–zombie romance include the stop-motion animated movie Corpse Bride, live-action movies Warm Bodies, Camille, Life After Beth, Burying the Ex, and Nina Forever, and TV series Pushing Daisies and Babylon Fields. [11] [87] According to zombie scholar Scott Rogers, "what we are seeing in Pushing Daisies, Warm Bodies, and iZombie is in many ways the same transformation [of the zombies] that we have witnessed with vampires since the 1931 Dracula represented Dracula as essentially human—a significant departure from the monstrous representation in the 1922 film Nosferatu". Rogers also notes the accompanying visual transformation of the living dead: while the "traditional" zombies are marked by noticeable disfigurement and decomposition, the "romantic" zombies show little or no such traits. [11] Return to decline (2015–present)Jones, Tanya Carinae Pell (15 April 2014). "From Necromancy to the Necrotrophic: Resident Evil's Influence on the Zombie Origin Shift from Supernatural to Science". In Farghaly, Nadine (ed.). Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films. McFarland & Company. pp.7–18. ISBN 978-0-7864-7291-8. We found that a high percentage of the cells in a host were fungal cells,” notes David Hughes, who is associate professor of entomology and biology at Penn State. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Lovecraft wrote several novellae that explored the undead theme. " Cool Air", " In the Vault" and " The Outsider" all deal with the undead, but Lovecraft's " Herbert West–Reanimator" (1921) "helped define zombies in popular culture". [53] This series of short stories featured Herbert West, a mad scientist, who attempts to revive human corpses, with mixed results. Notably, the resurrected dead are uncontrollable, mostly mute, primitive and extremely violent; though they are not referred to as zombies, their portrayal was prescient, anticipating the modern conception of zombies by several decades. [ citation needed] Edgar Rice Burroughs similarly depicted animated corpses in the second book of his Venus series, again without using the terms "zombie" or "undead". George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) is considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Another speaks of a 65-year-old man who had developed a belief that his organs — including his brain — had stopped working, and that even the house in which he lived was slowly but steadily falling apart.

Marinovich, Greg; Silva Joao (2000). The Bang-Bang Club Snapshots from a Hidden War. William Heinemann. p.84. ISBN 978-0-434-00733-2. Before entering its new “cocoon,” though, the wasp larva first finishes its “job” by devouring its host. Organized zombie walks have been staged, either as performance art or as part of protests that parody political extremism or apathy. [130] [131] [132] [133] [134] 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 On 18 May 2011, the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a graphic novel entitled Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse, providing tips to survive a zombie invasion as a "fun new way of teaching the importance of emergency preparedness". [124] The CDC used the metaphor of a zombie apocalypse to illustrate the value of laying in water, food, medical supplies, and other necessities in preparation for any and all potential disasters, be they hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or hordes of zombies. [124] [125]a b c Booker, M. Keith (2010). Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Vol.1: A–L. ABC-CLIO. p.662. ISBN 9780313357473. 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.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, while not a zombie novel per se, foreshadows many 20th century ideas about zombies in that the resurrection of the dead is portrayed as a scientific process rather than a mystical one and that the resurrected dead are degraded and more violent than their living selves. Frankenstein, published in 1818, has its roots in European folklore, whose tales of the vengeful dead also informed the evolution of the modern conception of the vampire. [51] Later notable 19th century stories about the avenging undead included Ambrose Bierce's " The Death of Halpin Frayser" and various Gothic Romanticism tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Though their works could not be properly considered zombie fiction, the supernatural tales of Bierce and Poe would prove influential on later writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, by Lovecraft's own admission. [52] I came to the conclusion that although it is unlikely that there is a single explanation for all cases where zombies are recognised by locals in Haiti, the mistaken identification of a wandering mentally ill stranger by bereaved relatives is the most likely explanation in many cases. People with a chronic schizophrenic illness, brain damage or learning disability are not uncommon in rural Haiti, and they would be particularly likely to be identified as zombies. Modern archetype evolution Dudiak, Zandy. "Guinness certifies record for second annual Zombie Walk". yourpenntrafford.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009 . Retrieved 1 October 2009.Kay, Glenn (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. p.184. ISBN 9781569766835. Dendle, Peter (2012). Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000–2010. McFarland. pp.256–. ISBN 9780786492886 . Retrieved 19 May 2013. Zombies: A Living History kind of waffles onto other subjects like cannibalism and how people are buried.

I was expecting something way more silly and unrealistic. Somehow the approach to the theme historically is done in a smooth enough way (although with some sketches where they teach you how to fight a Zombie, just in case :P ) 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. Cassiday, Bruce (1 September 1993). Modern mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers. Continuum. ISBN 9780826405739. Daniels, Kyrah Malika (1 January 2021). "Vodou harmonizes the head-pot, or, Haiti's multi-soul complex". Religion. 52 (3): 9. ISSN 0048-721X. The social explanation sees observed cases of people identified as zombies as a culture-bound syndrome, [44] with a particular cultural form of adoption practiced in Haiti that unites the homeless and mentally ill with grieving families who see them as their "returned" lost loved ones, as Littlewood summarizes his findings in an article in Times Higher Education: [45]Dalley, Stephanie (1989). Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p.80. ISBN 978-0-19-283589-5. 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."