annotated bibliography (Im legend)movie

John Q . Student

Professor Doe

English 344

8 May 2000

Annotated bibliography

Brooks , Max . World War Z , An oral history of the zombie war . New York Three Rivers Press . 2006

Though perhaps not as academic ' as the other sources in this bibliography , the oral history of the zombie war is an important side note to the whole genre . In Brooks ' book , there are several moments while recounting the battles with the zombies , where they are told from the point of view of the liberators . In fact , in his story

, he coins the phrase LAMOE ' which stands Last men on earth . These individuals much like the character played by Will Smith , had been left behind , the infected zones to fend for themselves . Often , as the story is told these people left behind , were not all too happy to be liberated , as they had conditioned themselves to the isolation of being , and believing they were the last people ' on earth . In this sense , the film version and incidentally the book , deal with these concepts from the point of view of the isolated but , what if they were to be told from the point of view of the liberators Campbell , Joseph "The Hero with a Thousand Faces " Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949

Joseph Campbell 's book , is an overview of legends and the masks our heroes wear . Both in the film version and the book version of I Am Legend , the Robert Neville character must go through various trials which , ultimately in the...