Fixing Ground Zero: Race and Religion in Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend
Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend is a complex intertext of Matheson’s novel of the same name and its two previous film adaptations. While the film attempts to depict racism as monstrous, the frequent invocation of 9/11 imagery and Christian symbolism throughout the film recodes the vampiric dark-seeke...
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-27 |
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Francis Lawrence
I Am Legend
The Omega Man
Christianity
Islam
Islamophobia
Crusades
Bush
11 / 9
Vampires
Monsters
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