The book covered films up until about 2002. My first book, Celluloid Vampires, was a study of how vampire mythology from folklore and literature had evolved through its adoption into the cinema in the 20 th Century. With critical precision and a fan’s enthusiasm for the subject, Abbott offers a guide to navigating the impending undead apocalypse. She shares her personal interest in vampire and zombie texts what she considers the classics of the genre and her thoughts on the proliferation of apocalyptic narratives across graphic novels, video games, and cosplay. I caught up with Stacey Abbott to discuss her book, published by Edinburgh University Press in September 2016. Undead Apocalypse delineates a contemporary canon of vampire and zombie texts to shed new light on our present historical moment, and the ‘culture of apocalypse’ that surrounds us. Through a series of engaging and incisive readings encompassing film, television, literature, and pop culture of the 20th and early 21st century, Abbott examines our fascination with these monstrous creatures and the cultural anxieties that they reveal. Rather than reading them in opposition to each other, Stacey Abbott traces the similar places they hold our collective imagination. Recent decades have brought an increasing preoccupation with the gothic figure of the vampire and the apocalyptic zombie. Stacey Abbott discusses the role that vampires and zombies play in 21st century culture Stacey Abbott, Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st century (EUP, 2016)
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