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Undead apocalypse : vampires and zombies in the 21st century
- Title
- Undead apocalypse : vampires and zombies in the 21st century / Stacey Abbott.
- Author
- Abbott, Stacey
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 225 pages ; color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-220), filmography (pages 202-207) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 16-5590
- ISBN
- 9780748694907
- 0748694900
- OCLC
- 945354529
- Author
- Abbott, Stacey, author.
- Title
- Undead apocalypse : vampires and zombies in the 21st century / Stacey Abbott.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-220), filmography (pages 202-207) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- MFL 16-5590