The walking dead of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
February 17, 2016
Last week I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and came away with a rather warm feeling in my offal. Released in time for Valentine’s day, this movie has a great deal of cerebral appeal, a lot of heart, and some period ladies venting spleen to serious (tongue through cheek) comedic effect. The film is based …
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
February 1, 2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies sounds like an incongruous title. Up there with Apocalypse Snuggle, perhaps. Or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Doilies. But on second thoughts, the combination of Austen and zombies might make more sense. Austen is, in some senses, a zombie author. She’s been reprinted, adapted, filmed, franchised, merchandised and monetised in …
Zombie Genomics – Sean on the Dead
October 30, 2015
Sean May from our School of Biosciences discussed the science of zombies as part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series earlier this year. I’m an unashamed slow-zombie fanboy (fast-zombies are just a trivial problem in viral epidemiology IMHO); and have pondered zombie biology for decades. This was an opportunity to really get my teeth into …
