The Cinematographic Origin of Colonialism in Haiti: Zombie Target
White Zombie (La legión de los hombres sin alma) | Victor Halperin | 1932
Xavier Brito Alvarado, carrera de comunicación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato; Adriana Rodríguez Caguana, Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Políticas Universidad de Guayaquil; Diego Jadán, Profesor Universidad del Azuay

Abstract

They are reflecting on zombie, movies classified as B, is complex, not because of the need for a bibliography or methodological issues. Their academic validity has often been overshadowed by considering them as productions without political or scientific discourse. However, in recent years this view has been displaced, and today, these productions have occupied a place to explain the multiple anxieties and social uncertainties in which we live. The premise of this work includes the film White Zombie (1932) and The Legion of Soulless Men; the first film on this theme, in which fantastic narratives are mixed with the politics of the time; and with it, discuss colonialism as a historical discourse that is still valid in societies. In this way, the essay begins with a bibliographic review of the zombie and its cinematographic representations, a second moment deals with the historical and political location of the zombie in Haiti, and, finally, the analysis of the film "White Zombie" which unravel the complex relationships between whites and blacks within a Haitian colonial context.

Keywords: cinema | zombie | colonialism | mysticism

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: El origen cinematográfico del colonialismo en Haití: White of Zombie


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Volumen 13 | Nº 2

JULY 2023
July 2023 - Octuber 2023

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