15 Years later: Zombies and The Apocalypse
Medrano Mauri, Marta
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the societal and cultural fears displayed in recent “zombie apocalypse” films produced in the first decade and a half of the 21st Century. Using the lenses of critical theory five pieces of media will be analysed, being 28 Days Later (2002, dir. Danny Boyle), World War Z (2013, dir. Marc Forster), REC (2007, dir. Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza ), The Walking Dead (2010 -, dev. Frank Darabont) and The Girl with all the Gifts (2017, dir. Colm McCarthy). The common factor of the aforementioned works being that they were all produced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The latent fears displayed in this recent crop of zombie horror films deal with the loss of stability in a familiar place, loss of humanity due to hardship and the distrust for established authority figures.
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