Biocalyptic imaginations in Japanese and Korean films: undead nation-states in I Am a Hero and Train to Busan.
The primary purpose of this essay is to survey the recent zombie craze in Northeast Asian films from Japan and South Korea. While the concept of the zombie may have originated in colonial Haiti, with its ghoulish images and supernatural lore, zombies were later imported to North America and reformul...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 437 - 452 |
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