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## Abstract Through the case study of __One Cut of the Dead__—a 2017 zombie-comedy about how a film crew stage a zombie-film-within-a-zombie-film for live broadcast—this article examines contemporary media’s appropriation of the meta- or hyper-realism to represent “impure monsters” in the guise of the uncanny return of the repressed. By comparison, by moving away from the anthropomorphic realism that mainstreams zombie narratives as “alternative facts,” __One Cut of the Dead__ interrupts the production of post-truth and liberates its characters from the “anthropological machine” responsible for people’s anxiety about being impure. In this light, the article intends, by providing an interpretation of how subjectivities can be generated within the apocalyptic experience of filmmaking/filmviewing, to bring about a reconsideration of the uncanny realism as a radical openness towards zombie events’ impact. This openness requires us not to reduce the singularity of the event to preexisting means of understanding. Rather than assume that the fictional genre has become either escapist fantasy or doomsday visions, I suggest instead that today’s horror cinema has increasingly highlighted ten

Author

Yeqi Zhu

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031420634

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities