From sugar to oil
The ecology of George A. Romero'sNight of the Living Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerstin Oloff (0000-0002-5324-9446) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 316-328 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2017.1337677 |
| OpenAlex | W2623226577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Reading the zombie as an essentially ecological figure, this article argues that zombie aesthetics are necessarily animated by the combined exploitation of alienated labour-power and appropriation of unpaid work/energy, material resources, agricultural lands and fossilized fuels. Though oil had always been crucial to the globalization of the zombie via the film industry, an overt preoccupation with oil only belatedly seeped into zombie aesthetics, just a few years before the global oil crisis of 1973. Marking a clear shift in zombie aesthetics, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) transformed the zombie-labourer into the human flesh-consuming petro-zombie horde. It is with Romero’s now canonical film, therefore, that the zombie truly enters the age of petromodernity
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biology · Carrion · Literature · Sociology · Zombie · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Ecology · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |