Zombies and Citizens: The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend

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Zombies and Citizens : The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. / Holm, Isak Winkel.

Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk. ed. / Isabel Capoa Gil; Christoph Wulf. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015. p. 205-222.

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Harvard

Holm, IW 2015, Zombies and Citizens: The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. in IC Gil & C Wulf (eds), Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 205-222.

APA

Holm, I. W. (2015). Zombies and Citizens: The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. In I. C. Gil, & C. Wulf (Eds.), Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk (pp. 205-222). De Gruyter.

Vancouver

Holm IW. Zombies and Citizens: The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. In Gil IC, Wulf C, editors, Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2015. p. 205-222

Author

Holm, Isak Winkel. / Zombies and Citizens : The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk. editor / Isabel Capoa Gil ; Christoph Wulf. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015. pp. 205-222

Bibtex

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