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Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Kee2022 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Historical account, Horror, USA Creators: Hamilton, Heffernan, Kee Publisher: Univ. of Wales Press (Cardiff) Collection: Theorising the Contemporary. Zombie Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures |
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“Chera Kee’s chapter adopts a historical approach to dissect early zombie comic book depictions of variant zombie figures. Centred on horror comic books dated from the 1930s to the late 1970s, Kee’s contribution to the field of zombiism is twofold. In the first instance Kee’s chapter, entitled ‘Beware the Zuvembies’, highlights the way comic-book zombies have anticipated later shifts in how zombies have been portrayed in other media. In effect, the comic-book zombie acts as a ground zero for later depictions of the undead. Following this and leading into Kee’s main argument, attention is given to Marvel Comics’ zombie-inspired characters from the 1970s and 1980s. Written in direct relation to a comic-book censorship on zombies during these decades, the Marvel characters carefully and deliberately pushed the boundaries of what was, or was not, regarded as a zombie. Situating the ‘zuvembies’ in this way, Kee argues that from the beginning of their tenure in American comic books, zombies have existed as ‘zuvembies’, both embodying and challenging popular expectations of the undead. Such a history of comic-book zombies questions assumptions of zombie characteristics, thereby expanding current debates on film- and literature-centric scholarship of zombies.” (From the Introduction)
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