[ecrea] New Book Announcement - Undead Apocalypse

 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century

By Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton)

Hardback / September 2016 / 240 pages / 24 colour illustrations / ISBN 
9780748694907 / £70.00 / $105
Published by Edinburgh University Press

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 About the book
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.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Needing to know the plural of apocalypse
1: The Legacy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend
2: ‘Cancer with a Purpose’: Putting the Vampire Under the Microscope
3: The Second Rising: The Resurgence of the Cinematic Zombie
4: A Very Slow Apocalypse: Zombie TV
5: The Hybrid Hero
6: ‘Be Me’:  I Vampire/ I Zombie
7: How to Survive a Vampire Apocalypse: or, what to do when the vampires 
are us
Afterword: They Walk Among Us: Vampires and Zombies Popular Culture
Filmography
TV Guide
Work Cited

> Find out more about Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-undead-apocalypse.html

For further information on the book, please see this interview with 
Stacey Abbott:
https://rhystranter.com/2016/10/03/stacey-abbott-undead-apocalypse-interview-vampires-zombies-21st-century/#more-19457



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