Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Explores the intersection of the vampire and zombie with 21st Century dystopian and post-apocalyptic cinema.

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.

• Rather than seeing them as separate or oppositional, this book explores the intersection and dialogue between the vampire and zombie across film and television
• Much contemporary scholarship on the vampire focuses on Dark Romance, while this book explores the more horror-based end of the genre
• Offers a detailed discussion of the development of zombie television
• Provides a detailed examination of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, including the novel, the script, the adaptations and the BBFC's response to Matheson's script

Vampire films --- Vampires on television --- Television --- Lesbian vampires in motion pictures --- Vampires in motion pictures --- Monster films --- History and criticism. --- Zombie films --- 2000-2099

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species. The book introduces the trope of the vegetarian vampire, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion: the Anthropocene, food studies, and the modern practice, politics and ideologies of vegetarianism. Drawing on references to recent historical contexts and developments in the genre more broadly, the book investigates the vegetarian vampire’s relationship to other more violent and monstrous forms of the vampire in popular twenty-first century horror cinema and television. Texts discussed include Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. Reading the Vegetarian Vampire examines a new aspect of contemporary interest in considering vampire fiction. Sophie Dungan is a teaching associate at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, Australia. Her primary research interests are in vampire studies, Gothic fiction, ecocriticism, food and Anthropocene studies.

Vampires in literature. --- Vampire films. --- Vampires on television. --- Vegetarianism in literature. --- Vegetarianism in motion pictures. --- Vegetarianism on television. --- Television --- Lesbian vampires in motion pictures --- Vampires in motion pictures --- Monster films --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- Goth culture (Subculture). --- Animal welfare --- Ecocriticism. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Gothic Studies. --- Animal Ethics. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy