Undead Apocalypse

Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century

Stacey Abbott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9490-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Stacey Abbott is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. Her research focuses on the horror genre and the gothic in film and television, with a particular specialism in both vampires and zombies.She is the author of Near Dark (2020), Undead Apocalypse (EUP, 2016), TV Horror (2013), Angel (2007) and Celluloid Vampires (2007). She is the editor of Global TV Horror (2021), TV Goes to Hell (2011) and The Cult TV Book (2010).

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Needing to know the plural of apocalypse1: The Legacy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend2: ‘Cancer with a Purpose’: Putting the Vampire Under the Microscope3: The Second Rising: The Resurgence of the Cinematic Zombie4: A Very Slow Apocalypse: Zombie TV5: The Hybrid Hero6: ‘Be Me’: I Vampire/ I Zombie7: How to Survive a Vampire Apocalypse: or, what to do when the vampires are usAfterword: They Walk Among Us: Vampires and Zombies Popular CultureFilmographyTV GuideWork Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2016
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white illustrations, 24 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7486-9490-0 / 0748694900
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-9490-7 / 9780748694907
Zustand	Neuware