Back to the Garden: The Eco-Zombies of Endzeit (Ever After)
摘要
This chapter examines the German-produced film Endzeit/Ever After (2018), directed by Carolina Hellsgård, and the ways in which it expands and comments on the characteristics and cultural commentary presented by the eco-zombie. By first presenting the history of the eco-zombie, the chapter will follow a feminist and eco-feminist approach to read the zombies as “body-territory” existing within a political cartography that exposes the framework of an authoritarian heteropatriarchy that enacts violence upon both the environment and women’s bodies. Incorporating historical and philosophical characteristics (including ecofascism) related to Weimar, where the film is set, the chapter will explore how the eco-zombies in this film embody the contradictions inherent in escaping patriarchy without essentializing nature and the feminine, while at the same time hinting toward a futurity achievable through radical hope.