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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Consumerism and the Undead City: The Silent Hill and Resident Evil Films
verfasst von : Antonio Sanna
Erschienen in: The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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In this chapter I examine the representation of urban space in the two Silent Hill films (2006–2012) and the Resident Evil saga (2002–2012). I draw on academic debates that identify the figure of the zombie with the (almost) non-autonomous citizen who is driven by an uncontrollable consumerism. In these franchises, cities are pictured as deserted places, haunted by the monstrous and ghostly remains of humanity. I suggest that such a representation of the city can be interpreted as caused by the consumerism of contemporary society.