by Faith Lee Introduction World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) is a novel written by Max Brooks. It focuses on ordinary citizens around the globe, recording their experiences with the zombie apocalypse and showing readers how different countries reacted to the apocalypse differently. Outbreak (1995) is a film directed by Wolfgang Petersen.…

By Kyi Cin Thet Introduction Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, two increasingly contesting stakeholders have emerged, manifesting as the dominating authority and the subordinate public. In this article, authority refers to the government agencies, under which the military and police fall under, and healthcare agencies in the films, both of which…

By Lynette Teo Since the late 1960s, zombie films have become a dominant icon of American popular culture. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) first introduced the “living dead” as grotesque flesh-eating creatures with a distinctly lumbering gait, an image which has come to define the modern zombie in contemporary Western media. Since…