As many other expressions of monstrosity, zombies are political. Their undead bodies disrupt the established order, threatening the living, embodying, in their decayed flesh, the social and political anxieties of our time. For instance, previous scholarship has considered Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (Romero, Night of the Living Dead. Image Ten, 1968) as a critical approach to race (Pinedo, Recreational Terror. Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. State University of New York Press: Ithaca, 1997), and his film Dawn of the Dead (Romero, Dawn of the Dead. Laurel Group, Dawn Associates, 1978) as a critique to consumerism. Throughout the years, their increasing popularity has led to numerous adaptations from a variety of national contexts and media, from television to comics, and videogames, allowing to use the myth of the living dead to explore the shared anxieties of the postmodern world. This chapter focuses on the Spanish context and the zombies from the popular and transnational [.REC] franchise with the aim to analyze these zombie narratives within their national, historical, and social context. The chapter aims to determine the fears and anxieties underlying these storylines and the Spanishness behind these living dead.

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Spanish Zombies, Traumatic Past and the REC Franchise

  • Irene Baena-Cuder

摘要

As many other expressions of monstrosity, zombies are political. Their undead bodies disrupt the established order, threatening the living, embodying, in their decayed flesh, the social and political anxieties of our time. For instance, previous scholarship has considered Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (Romero, Night of the Living Dead. Image Ten, 1968) as a critical approach to race (Pinedo, Recreational Terror. Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. State University of New York Press: Ithaca, 1997), and his film Dawn of the Dead (Romero, Dawn of the Dead. Laurel Group, Dawn Associates, 1978) as a critique to consumerism. Throughout the years, their increasing popularity has led to numerous adaptations from a variety of national contexts and media, from television to comics, and videogames, allowing to use the myth of the living dead to explore the shared anxieties of the postmodern world. This chapter focuses on the Spanish context and the zombies from the popular and transnational [.REC] franchise with the aim to analyze these zombie narratives within their national, historical, and social context. The chapter aims to determine the fears and anxieties underlying these storylines and the Spanishness behind these living dead.