Lecture Series
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
The third event in the Leeds Cultural Conversations series 2018/19.
Presented by Dr Sue Chaplin.
This talk examines changing representations of monstrosity in the new millennium, situating these changes in the context of the rise of neoliberalism and the resistance to it.
In particular it will consider the huge contemporary popularity of and the radical shift in depictions of the vampire and the zombie in postmillennial fiction, film and television.
This event is part of the Leeds Cultural Conversations series organised by the Centre for Culture & the Arts at Leeds Beckett University.