Night of the Living Dead, has cultural aspects popular to its time in the 1960’s; this included racial movement, patriotism and female gender normalities. The main character and hero in this movie was black; it was not common to see at this time. This movie helped recognize the issue of racism in Hollywood films and the change and need for equality. There was also an aspect of patriotism in this movie; by having the directors name above the flag of America. This movie can have been viewed as criticism of the Vietnam war as there were many American soldiers that were lost in the war, just like the innocent lives of the civilians that were taken by the zombies. This hugely controversial issue caused many American citizens to critique and question
