BOOKS - Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
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Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
Author: Stacey Abbott
Year: November 1, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.2 MB
Language: English
Year: November 1, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.2 MB
Language: English
Twenty-first-century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one alluring, the other repellant; one seductive, the other infectious. With case studies of films like I Am Legend and 28 Days Later, as well as television programmes like Angel and The Walking Dead, this book challenges these popular assumptions and reveals the increasing interconnection of undead genres. Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the 'reluctant' vampire, Stacey Abbott shows how both archetypes are actually two sides of the same undead coin. When considered together they present a dystopian, sometimes apocalyptic, vision of twenty-first-century existence.
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