Saturday, April 23, 2016

Resident Evil Fandom


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Farghaly, Nadine, ed. Contributions to Zombie Studies: Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films. Jefferson, NC, USA: McFarland, 2014. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 22 April 2016. 



Image result for resident evilNadine Farghaly discusses the popularity of zombies and the franchise of Resident Evil fandom. The essays written for this volume focuses on this particular zombie manifestation and its significance in popular culture. Farghaly describes how Resident Evil started out as a video game but then grew into one of the biggest zombie franchises and fandoms around. “Capcom has sold 56 million units of these games, and since its debut, seven main video games have been distributed…” Resident Evil developed merchandise for its fans, graphic novels, action figures, and books. Resident evil fandom consists of message boards, live bulletin groups, and blogs.

The fans of Resident Evil are truly amazing. They live, breathe, and die for everything resident evil. It is the fans and the fandom that comes along with Resident Evil that keeps the games, movies, figurines, comics able to come out with more content. 

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