George A. Romero

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    the slave industry in the colonial area continues to affect Haiti. After giving us this information she focuses on how the zonbi became the American Zombie. Using the white zombie and I walked with a zombie as a reference to highlight the racial climate of the time. By quoting Laënnec Huron "Zombies, along with the cannibal practices that were imputed to be part of Haitian culture, became the image of the "Other" through which barbarism comes to be the sign for the Haitian" (McAlister,472) meaning at the time when these movies came out America was going the what was considered the Black fear which led white American of the time to consider the black Americans and Haitians consciously or subconsciously as the "Other". Around the time that George Romero's night of the living dead came out we began to see a shift from the movies set in the Caribbean to being set in the middle of suburban America. McAlister noted that Romero's films are an allegory for the American way of life. She further analyzes the Romero's films and why they represent "night of the living dead attacks the nuclear American family patriarchy and racism; Dawn Of the dead fastens its attention on the deadening effects of rampant consumerism, and Day of the Dead offers an indictment of militarism and American misuse of science and technology." (McAlister, 473) In these films, there is no sorcery involved unlike the movies made prior to Romero's dead series instead he focused on the more scientific cause that…

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    According to Klosterman, “Zombies are a commodity that has advanced slowly and without major evolution, much like the staggering creatures George Romero popularized in the 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead.”” (Klosterman). In this allusion, Klosterman connects the trend of zombies to zombies featured in “Night of the Living Dead”. Society is fast-paced and ever-changing, which makes it strange how zombies have hardly changed at all, yet have continued to rise in popularity, their image…

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    that the new generation of zombies have obtained. Not only have the decaying skin and the exposed organs become more realistic, but the overall violence and gore within zombie media has risen dramatically. These changes are mostly due to the specialization of costume makeup and the improved materials that allow for realistic reconstruction of guts. However, the developed zombies are not only made more gruesome because of improved technology, but as a possible attempt to differentiate from…

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    the movie, death doesn’t help the protagonists win. Death doesn’t do anything really which is a commentary on how the countless deaths in Vietnam weren’t helping the cause at all. The protagonists also don’t win in the end of the movie which was rare for a movie back then. The main character is accidentally killed at the end of the movie when mistaken for a zombie. This is a bleak and hopeless end which is commentary on the bleak outlook on the future American’s had in the 1960s with the…

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    The Zombie Genre

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    genre in the mainstream. It would compelling to know what driving factors are affecting its growth in general. The concept of zombie did not arrive into the North American populace till the late 1920s (Christie 2011, p. 10). It is from there that the concept of zombie underwent a considerable amount of evolution. The original need to serve was replaced with an insatiable instinct to feed off living flesh (Christie 2011, p. 7). In addition, its concept of its creation was replaced by events…

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    a reason for using zombies and other human-like creatures to scare us is because we are not only afraid of people we do not know, but mostly what they are capable of. Zombies are similar to us, but there are differences, and it is these differences that makes us fear them. People are afraid of the dead because the thought of rotting away and no longer existing seems to scare us all. That is why when people die, we either bury them or cremate them so we do not have to witness the process of…

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    The majority of zombie stories are all based off the same idea, that zombies are all one dimensional flesh eating beasts. In Fido and Last stand that is not the case. They are different from the common zombie theme, because the zombies are more affectionate than some humans. Last stand, the zombies wanted to be far away from the humans, but the humans were trying to find and kill them. In Fido, the zombies had to wear a collar to be calm so they would not become the bloodthirsty monsters the…

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    Zombie Geographies

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    In Jeff May’s Zombie Geographies and the Undead City, he starts by explaining that “contemporary zombie films mark a geographical move to large urban areas, bringing the zombie masses to the city and foregroundIng urban fears while containing implicit messages about social difference and otherness”(May 286). I found this quote extremely interesting. If I could fast forward time, and somehow be placed in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, I would chose to be in a more rural or even suburban area.…

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    Trailer Comparison Essay ‘Deadpool’ directed by Tim Miller and ‘Suicide Squad’ directed by David Ayer both utilise close-up shots as part of their trailers. The ‘Suicide Squad’ trailer commences with closeup shots to introduce all characters which has the effect of making a lasting impression in order to be more memorable. The camera then transitions to a wide shot of a restaurant after exhibiting all the ‘superheroes’ in the prison. The shot has been framed through a window and includes the…

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    Ghost Zombie Memo

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    The purpose of this memorandum I to address the outbreak of Ghost Zombie Randolph Hall at Miskatonic University at Arkham Massachusetts to President Algernan Black. A ghost Zombie is a dead person that is being back to life through means of witchcraft. Most people including myself are affected by this outbreak. Recent attack, which sitting in the lunch area, I hear a loud noise coming from the classroom behind me. I then turned around seeing a group of a ghost zombie covered with blood chowing…

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