Undead apocalypse: vampires and zombies in the twenty-first century

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 TV programme...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2016]
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Klappentext
Zusammenfassung: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 TV 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
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:ix, 225 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781474438377
9780748694907