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Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies presents … DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, a short-form solocast by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).
Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 22 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.
You are welcome to reach out to Dr. Bishop with comments or questions via email:bishopk@suu.edu, Twitter: @DrWalkingDead, or by leaving him a voicemail: (801) 899-9798. You can also watch the documentary, Doc of the Dead (2014), which features Dr. Walking Dead. Find more links below for Dr. Bishop.
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Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Kyle Bishop is brought to you by Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, an audio Horror movie podcast. It features seven experienced Horror hosts review new Horror movies and deliver specialty Horror segments. Your hosts are Jay of the Dead, Dr. Shock, Gillman Joel, Mister Watson, Dr. Walking Dead, GregaMortis and Mackula! Due to the large number and busy schedule of its seven Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies will be recorded in segments, piecemeal, at various times and recording sessions. Therefore, as you listen to our episodes, you will notice a variety of revolving door hosts and segments, all sewn together and reanimated like the powerful Monster of Dr. Frankenstein!
SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead
- A little background on The Mad Doctor himself, Kyle Bishop
- Description of the Dead Man Still Walking solocast
[ 00:04:08 ] – The Zombie: An American Monster Tradition
- Back story: An exploration of film genres with no literary origin
- The limited amount of writing and research about zombie films
- The Zombie: An American Monster Tradition
- Book: The Magic Island by William Seabrook
- Book: The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death by Sarah J. Lauro
[ 00:09:06 ] – The Haitian Zombie
- Original zombie concepts and terms
- Catholicism and Resurrection
- Soulless bodies coming back from the dead
- The frightening concepts of enslavement
- 1930s Horror Movies: Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.
- White Zombie (1932)
- Book: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
- The 1980s book: The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
- Coupe poudre and the pufferfish poison Tetrodotoxin
- The paralysis that resembles death
- The true and terrifyingly evil process of creating “a real zombie”
- There have been real zombies (sort of) that inspired the Hollywood monsters
- Book: The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Vol. 1 (1932-1999) by Peter Dendle
- Book: The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Vol. 2 (2000-2010) by Peter Dendle
[ 00:20:00 ] – The Romero Revolution of Zombie Evolution
- In 1968, George A. Romero changed zombies forever
- Modern variations of zombies
- Much more to come!
[ 00:21:47 ] – Wrap-Up:
– Book: The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie, edited by Kyle William Bishop and Angela Tenga
Special thanks to website developer Jaxon Carroll and graphic designer Trump Widdop for their excellent work in helping Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies to have a nice, new website. Thank you! And big shout-out and thanks to Mister Watson and his son, Skylarr, for composing the music for Mister Watson’s Horror Hierarchy segment.
LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Links for Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop:
Email Dr. Bishop here: bishopk@suu.edu
Dr. Walking Dead’s Bio Page
Book: American Zombie Gothic
Book: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
— Kyle’s Amazon Author Profile
— Doc of the Dead zombie culture documentary
— Kyle’s re-animated Twitter: @DrWalkingDead
– Learn more about Dr. Walking Dead
– Faculty Friday: Meet Dr. Kyle Bishop, English
– TEDx SUU Talk on YouTube: Why Zombies Matter
– YouTube: Zombies: An idea worth spreading about how ideas spread
– YouTube: 50+ Shades of Gothic: Zombies, Bodies and Boundaries
– YouTube: Why zombie culture is so popular?
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Frederick Ingram’s Fish Bowl (Funky Margarita Mix)
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Great episode Dr Walking Dead!! Looking forward to the next one too–Woo! (said in the correct Ric Flair way).
Thank you so much, Kaiju Nick! Your “woo” is an honor (even though I’m a Mankind kinda guy!). 🙂
Awesome. Looking forward to new episodes with Dr. Walking Dead.
Thanks, Couch! The next one is already in the can!
Kyle is a fantastic host. Well spoken and brings so much knowledge. Plus he sent me an autographed book how zombies conquered pop culture which is fantastic. I highly recommend
Thanks for the kind and supportive words, Brian!