Dopo l’apocalissi zombie. Sviluppo e crisi di una forma tematico-narrativa tra miti antichi e cultura pop
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Like a large part of contemporary post-apocalyptic imagery, the popular trend of the so-called "zombie apocalypses" proposes a peculiar thematic-narrative form, built around a series of oppositions that support the construction of the text. It refers to the clash between two universes of values: the restoration of the former pre-apocalyptic world or the foundation of a new, more just society, sometimes egalitarian and libertarian. Particularly significant in this regard is The Walking Dead (comic strip and TV series), in which the focus of narration is not so much on the fight against zombies but rather on the construction of new human communities and the clash of values ??underlying them, inspired to the pre-apocalyptic past or instead rooted in new ways of being and new ethics dictated by survival. However, there are cases in which the role of zombies is different and more significant, to the point of outlining rudimentary post-human zombie societies that seems to be the only possible alternative to humanity's inability to build new forms of sociality.
Author: Paolo Bertetti
Institution: University of Turin
Language: Italian
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7164309785