The rise of the outbreak genre: 28 days later and the digital epidemic

Echeverría Domingo, Julia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The opening of the twenty-first century has witnessed what film scholars have described as a "zombie renaissance" (Bishop, "Dead Man" 16–25; Bishop, American Zombie 16; Dendle, Encyclopedia 172; Hubner, Leaning, and Manning; Kee 12) or a "post–9/11 zombie movie craze" (Roche), in reference to the high number of movies and extra-cinematic cultural artifacts that have plagued popular culture with hordes of living dead creatures. Ever since George A. Romero set the conventions of the genre with his influential living dead trilogy, which dissociated the zombie from its Haitian voodoo origins, these monsters have been commonly understood as metaphors providing insightful commentary on sociopolitical and ideological concerns...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1353/esc.2018.0008

Año: 2018

Publicado en: English Studies in Canada 44, 3 (2018), 49-66
ISSN: 0317-0802

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.129 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q2)

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)