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The Walking Dead: Zombies Among Us “People can try and set you in the right direction, but they can’t show you the way”, said Morgan, one of “The Walking Dead’s” most morally torn characters of all time (Negrete). The statement embodies the mental battle that each character must conquer regularly as they are trying to survive in a world that offers nothing but hard decisions. The constant fight between good and evil is what has kept the fans of the series coming back in droves for the last seven years. “The Walking Dead” series not only provides the apex of entertainment for zombie enthusiasts, it also provides dramatic insight into human nature when life is at its lowest. The fact that the series is also one of the most controversial television shows at the same time comes as no surprise. The writers and directors continually manage to provide the viewers with plenty of gory visuals for entertainment purposes. It seems for some though that they go too far into extremes while filming the killing of zombies, resulting in outcries from anti-fans to clean up the show or stop it all together. Assuming a zombie apocalypse did occur, there is going to be violence and gore like what is seen in the show. The over exaggeration is part of Hollywood’s plan to get views and by all accounts it is working. In Season Four, the writers decided to center more around character development and there was a considerable drop in zombie scenes. It did not go unnoticed by the fans of the show and…

The Walking Dead: Era of Zombies Living in a real-life zombie apocalypse where your day-to-day endeavors include facing hordes of the undead, dwindling supplies, and encountering dangerous strangers lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been…

When one typically thinks of comic books or graphic novels such as Archie's or Marvel and D.C. superhero series come to mind. However, it is a common misconception that graphic novel only have the power to convey silly scenarios or fantasy action stories. In reality, there is more to graphic novels than just fiction. Meaning that they can also be of the nonfictional genre and one example of being Maus by American comic book artist, Art Spiegelman. Maus is a two volume-set story of Spiegelman's…

In the world of comic books, graphic novels and manga, I have acquired my love for these types of reading for entertainment, but learning from the course of Reading Graphic Narratives, I learned to not only value the text or only the drawings when reading these types of texts, but to instead value both text and drawings to compile the meaning of the whole story. Another meaningful detail I learned in this course was, video games and graphic novels both share the elements of text and visual art.…

In the present day, film is one of the foremost media forms in the world with nearly all cultures being represented. Film is the product of many different media forms combined into one including photography, painting, music, and sculpture just to name a few. Given that, there is art if film, but an ongoing debate questions whether film itself can be conceived as an art form at all. All films at their bare minimum are photographic images being shown in a rapid succession to give the appearance of…

they’re being lied to straight to their faces by food ads? The answer is photography. The art of capturing the perfect image has evolved from the unscripted Kodak moment to the fake, scripted Hollywood moments people see on TV every day. People can manipulate pictures at the push of a button in today’s culture so why not alter the way food is photographed too. By analyzing the way food is photographed, one can see the false misconceptions, it creates not only literally…

People are inundated with large amounts of images on the daily based that they are more willing to skim through images rather that look and examine the possible situations presented. The artist made an attempt to put the pictures in a different context and hold the viewers attention much like a painting would. At first I did what most people do when it comes to digital images, I took a quick glance and kept looking, it was only on the second walk around did I notice the interesting surrounding…

documenting ferns, allowed people to understand what they looked like, size and scale, giving proof to science and the botanist community on their existence and important documentary need. Her images allowed for women, in her time, to see that there was more to photography then just a portrait shot - also giving women a real stand alone place in a field, science and photography,…

Photography had been around for more than a century and has drastically changed throughout the years. It used to take a ton of heavy equipment in order to take a decent photo. Not only would it take lots of work, but also lots of patients to wait for the photo to develop so that the person can see the image. Now it only takes a smartphone to take a good quality photo and it is not as complicated as it was years ago. Photography was mainly used to record memories and was not for social use. The…

trusted. The “Cinema of Attractions” did not gain its reputation from being ‘windows onto the world’ as photographs were seen, instead it become popular at fairgrounds, alongside conjurers and magicians, as a form of spectacle. At its heart; not reality. Even when watching what is seemingly a very naturalistic video, such as a nature documentary, there is a sense that what we are seeing is constructed, from the tightly controlled edit points to the sharply focused macro animal shots. Gregory…