The use of zombies as metaphorical constructions in television fiction. In the Flesh as a case study analysis

Authors

  • Alberto Añón Lara Universidad de Córdoba, España
    Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10020

Keywords:

Television, Metaphor, Zombie, Homophobia, George A. Romero, In the Flesh

Abstract

Since the 1968 release of Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968), the zombie has worked as one of the most important allegorical figures in horror movies. Now that television fictions are in fashion, becoming one of the most remarkable cultural phenomena of recent times, the genre has managed to evolve thanks to the serialized format. The metaphorical potential that characterizes this creature has been revitalized by the appearance of narratives that invite us to put ourselves in its skin, giving it cognitive abilities that make it the protagonist of its own stories. Our aim, therefore, is to study the origin of the humanization of the living dead and, finally, to analyze the television show In the Flesh (BBC Three: 2013-2014), one of the cases that have made the best use of this innovative feature.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

  • Alberto Añón Lara, Universidad de Córdoba, España
    Universidad de Córdoba, España

References

Downloads

Published

2020-07-25

Dimensions

PlumX

Citations

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC

Issue

No. 21 (2020): The “European Dream”: Narratives of a Crisis in Film and photography

Section

Miscellany

License

All contents published in Fotocinema Revista científica de cine y fotografía are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. All about this license is available in the following link: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0>

Users can copy, use, redistribute, share and exhibit publicly as long as:

  • The original source and authorship of the material are cited (Journal, Publisher and URL of the work).
  • It is not used for comercial purposes.
  • The existence of the license and its especifications are mentioned.

There are two sets of authors’ rights: moral and property rights. Moral rights are perpetual prerogatives, unrenounceable, not-transferable, unalienable, imprescriptible and inembargable. According to authors’ rights legislation, Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía recognizes and respects authors moral rights, as well as the ownership of property rights, which will be transferred to University of Malaga in open access. The property rights are referred to the benefits that are gained by the use or the dissemination of works. Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía is published in an open access form and it is exclusively licenced by any means for doing or authorising distribution, dissemination, reproduction, , adaptation, translation or arrangement of works.

Authors are responsable for obtaining the necessary permission to use copyrighted images.

How to Cite

Añón Lara, A. . (2020). The use of zombies as metaphorical constructions in television fiction. In the Flesh as a case study analysis. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, 21, 405-428. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10020