The Post Apocalyptic Novel In The Twenty First Century.
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.
Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century - Stacey Abbott - ISBN: 9781474438377. 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.
In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of.
The Obama presidency suffused the undead with pluralist hope, bringing forth a sustained celebration of undead diversity. In Twilight and True Blood in particular, the undead find sexual politics to be a site for explicit contestation, including the relaxation of sexual and social mores, as vampires become part of our daily lives, and articulate intense social and sexual desires.
She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Angel: TV Milestone (2009), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21 st Century (2016), and co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013). Her research expertise is focused on horror and gothic film and television, and has also written extensively about cult TV, including Buffy, Angel.
Twenty-first-century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositio.
Stacey Abbott is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016), and co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: The Dark Side of the Small Screen (2012). About the Miskatonic Institute.
