Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie FilmsPosted in Articles, Communications/Media Studies, Media Archive on 2016-03-18 23:47Z by Steven |
Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films
Journal of Popular Film and Television
Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014
DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772
pages 176-185
Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic comedies, it becomes clear that whereas earlier films shut down symbolic interracial fantasies, contemporary films do not. This isn’t without problems, as some films still rescue zombies from zombiness (and hence, their blackness).
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