169461 20260227133541.0 doi 10.1353/esc.2018.0008 sideral 123790 ART-2018-123790 eng Echeverría Domingo, Julia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3483-5271 The rise of the outbreak genre: 28 days later and the digital epidemic 2018 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... Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.129 2018 Literature and Literary Theory 2018 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 44, 3 (2018), 49-66 English Studies in Canada 0317-0802 192296 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169461/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1060701 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169461/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:169461 articulos driver 2026-02-27-12:36:08 ARTICLE