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*With apologies for cross-posting As we approach Halloween, I thought that some on this list might be interested in my new book - Undead Apocalypse -- which has just come out. 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 ---------- 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. ---------- 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 Dr. Stacey Abbott Reader in Film and Television Studies Roehampton University | London | SW15 5SL [log in to unmask] | www.roehampton.ac.uk Author of Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press 2016) Co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. Tauris 2013) Author of Angel: TV Milestone (Wayne State University Press, 2009) Author of Celluloid Vampires (University of Texas Press, 2007) Former President of the Whedon Studies Association (2014-16) http://slayageonline.com/WSA.htm - http://slayageonline.com/ - http://www.watcherjunior.tv/ tel: +44 (0) 208 392 3439 Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose or otherwise act upon any part of this email or its attachments. Internet communications are not guaranteed to be secure or virus-free. University of Roehampton does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any Internet communications by any third party, or from the transmission of any viruses. Any opinion or other information in this e-mail or its attachments that does not relate to the business of University of Roehampton is personal to the sender and is not given or endorsed by University of Roehampton. University of Roehampton is the trading name of Roehampton University, a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England under number 5161359. Registered Office: Grove House, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PJ. An exempt charity. -- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the Film-Philosophy list, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html -- Journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Conference: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ --