Abstract
Like a contagion, the modern horror film has spread from the screen — where it was relatively contained — and into the streets and homes beyond. Horror movies have now successfully penetrated computer games, toy stores and fancy dress shops, with innocent children seduced by the opportunity to wear replica costumes of the screen’s most hideous creatures. Leading this monster invasion is a zombie culture that has infected a willing population, albeit a hungry horde of part-timers feeding off a consumer culture.
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Conrich, I. (2015). An Infected Population: Zombie Culture and the Modern Monstrous. In: Hubner, L., Leaning, M., Manning, P. (eds) The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276506_2
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