![]() ![]() At first this might seem like an obvious statement, given the contemporary commodification (and resulting homogenisation) of these kinds of subcultural symbols, but Abbott brings these two figures together in a way that reinvigorates otherwise stale debates. Abbott's main thesis is that, in twenty-first-century popular culture, 'the vampire and the zombie are increasingly integrated and intertwined' (4). ![]() This is what makes Stacey Abbott's Undead Apocalypse such a timely and valuable text. Over the past 30 years, a seemingly endless series of books and articles has focused on the ethics, politics and configurations of the zombie in popular culture, and the vampire has an even more extensive history. And, like the late capitalism they embody, it is often difficult to image how popular and academic discourse can ever escape their looming shadow. In the twenty-first century, zombies and vampires are everywhere. ![]()
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