The Zombie in Film (FULL ESSAY: Parts I, II, and III) By Dave Paul Strohecker, Feb 27, 2012, at 04:06 pm Below is a three part essay I presented at the 2012 Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 9th.
It was presented as part of a series of panels titled “The Apocalypse in Popular Culture.” A (much) earlier version of this paper can be found on the Sociological Images sister blog. Paul Ollinger: 9 Reasons Republicans Love The Walking Dead. Anyone who loves freedom recognizes AMC TV's zombie series The Walking Dead as an allegory for the demise of liberty after four more years under President Obama.
In the show's post-apocalyptic world, the un-dead eat the living, just as in post-Obamaclypse America, where the rich will be eaten by legions of entitlement-hungry, unemployed and illegal immigrants (many of whom don't love Jesus). As desperate as this situation has become, perhaps a zombie apocalypse is just what we need to hit Control-Alt-Delete on our ravenous, paternalistic government. Here are the elements of The Walking Dead (TWD) that get Republicans all steamy and turned-on in their blue blazers and pressed khakis: Zombie Sarah Palin: still do-able 1.
Everybody's shuffling: Rise of zombies in modern life. 4 December 2012Last updated at 19:52 ET By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter The living dead, a long-time staple of horror films, are increasingly becoming food for thought for academics and economists.
Zombies have been lurching from the entertainment business into the worlds of mathematics, science and finance. Why have zombies taken over? The word "zombie" has its origins in the distant past. According to Prof Adam Chodorow, author of Death and Taxes and Zombies, it appears to have its roots in Haitian voodoo. The Oxford Dictionary says the word "zombie" emerged in the 19th Century from an African word, "zumbi", which means fetish. Have AMC's Zombies Already Eaten TV? Futurist Jamais Cascio Offers Predictions for 2013. This article is part of Inc.'s special report on How (and Where) to Make Money in 2013 (and Beyond).
Follow the links at the end of the story for more game-changing trends, bold predictions, and hot markets to watch next year. Jamais Cascio is a distinguished fellow at the Insitute for the Future. Inc. sat down with him recently to get his vision for the future. Too Many Zombies. The brains behind Zombie Prom. Zombie Prom takes place at Wooly’s on Friday, Nov 2.
Zombie talk. While everyone is dressing up and playing pretend for Halloween, what many people might not realize about the Day of the Dead is that some folks live it every day. America Hooked on Zombies—But Why? Who would have thought pale, flesh-eating monsters would be so engrained in American pop culture?
Zombies have got everyone talking these days, from lighter Zombie parades and relay races to talks of a zombie apocalypse across the blogosphere, sparked by last month’s brutal cannibal attack in Miami. Zombie Research Society. How Zombies and Superheroes Conquered Highbrow Fiction - Joe Fassler. Realistic stories once dominated American literature, but now writers are embracing the fantastical.
What happened? Reuters In 2010, scientists from the University of Bristol demonstrated that genetically modified crops can—and do—pass their DNA onto other organisms . Through a process called horizontal gene transfer, altered genes break the species boundary, introducing foreign mutations into the wild. Into the Zombie Underworld Survival horrors, survival spaces: Tracing the modern zombie (cin. Author: Browning, John Edgar Source: Horror Studies, Volume 2, Number 1, June 2011 , pp. 41-59(19) Publisher: Intellect Buy & download fulltext article:
Thoughts on Zombies and Sociology « Compromise and Conceit. Recently I have been watching The Walking Dead, a new Zombie apocalypse survival TV show from the US.
So far – 5 episodes in – it’s awesome, with all the hallmarks of a good zombie show (zombies, good make up, gore, tension, nowhere to run) and all the hallmarks of a good US TV show (fine plot development, excellent acting, good scripting), and at the moment I’ve already enjoyed more zombie tv (5 hours’ worth, roughly) than I can usually bear. I won’t say more about the TV show yet except that it really is very good and you, gentle reader, should be scaring yourself grey on it as soon as possible.
This post is more about the sociological implications of zombification, something I don’t usually think about but was brought to contemplate by this essay on zombies as symbol of working class uprising. Bath Salt Drugs and the Zombie Face Eater: Big Issues. On May 26, a man in Miami attacked another man with his teeth.
You may have heard about it, because the news media spent the next 96 hours shuddering in horrified ecstasy. Soon afterwards, a top police official speculated that the attack might be the result of a designer drug called bath salts, or possibly a new, unknown form of LSD. Many local television news outlets went on to conflate the two drugs, simply referring to bath salts as "the new LSD.
" Atlantamagazine. The moon has risen like a corpse from a tombstone and hangs gray above Newnan High School. Getting In Touch With Your Inner Zombie. Consider Fred. Each morning, Fred folds himself into his exotic cabriolet and glides down the street in the soft purr of tires. Fred’s gray suit pants might be cashmere. Fred’s hair alone—perfectly arranged, bangs buffed ever so lightly—is off-putting, rakish.
Fred’s lawn is an empire of green. Zombies Are So Hot Right Now - Features. Zombies and Ideology. Premiered on British TV last night. Based on the comic books of the same name, it has all the originality of a Westlife album and deals in tropes so tired they ought be interred in a nearby retirement home. But despite that, the pilot episode - 'Days Gone Bye' - works very well. Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, or Egg from This Life) is wounded in a shoot out and wakes up in a hospital bed. In scenes reminiscent of 28 Days Later and Day of the Triffids he gets his bearings and staggers through a deserted but battle scarred hospital.
Rick comes across a half-eaten nurse, walls daubed with blood, and a locked door bulging with trapped undead. Zombie craze continues to infect popular culture. 23 October 2011Last updated at 00:37 By John Sudworth BBC News Zombie numbers have been rising in recent years. Sociology of the Zombie Apocalypse. Stant Litore: Zombies and God: 5 Religious Questions That Zombie Stories Ask Us.
"And he asked me, Son of man, can these bones live? " Homeland Security Encourages Americans To Prepare For Zombie Apocalypse. CDC's Zombie Survival Comic. Teaching Geography with Zombies. America’s Obsession with the Zombie Apocalypse (it might be more than just a fad) When I took “The History of Western Civilizations” in college, the professor had a rather unique approach to the class.
He never covered dates or dry historical facts. He left that to the history books. Why Are Americans so Obsessed With Zombies? Why We’re Obsessed With the Living Dead. I think it is safe to say that Americans and Westerners in general are obsessed with the living dead. This is especially true lately. Zombie Zone News. Why we’re fascinated by zombies. The Walking Dead – What Makes A Zombie Tick? I Has Questions. The Zombie Apocalypse Metaphor Refuses to Die - National.
On Thursday, FEMA became the latest U.S. government agency to act like a zombie apocalypse is a real thing, ensuring that this trope keeps coming back to life long after it's dead, just like a real zombie.