- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : color illustrations.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Undead apocalypse (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Undead apocalypse (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2017287199
- OCLC
- ssj0001986013
- Author
Abbott, Stacey.
- Title
Undead apocalypse [electronic resource] : vampires and zombies in the twenty-first century / Stacey Abbott.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
2000-2099