Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
Stacey Abbott
Abstract
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 repellent; one seductive, the other infectious. With case studies of films like I Am Legend, Daybreakers, and 28 Days Later, as well as television programmes like Angel, In the Flesh, 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 th ... More
Keywords: Vampire, Zombie, Film, Television, Apocalypse, Science, Dystopia, Sympathetic
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748694907 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694907.001.0001 |
