Night of the Living Dead

The size of all other media combined paled in comparison but it was still sizable. It seems that the amount of externally recorded media is inversely proportional to the life expectancy of the dominant species in a civilization. Other, longer living, species are not as creatively prolific or feel the same compulsion humans seemed to have felt to record and share their creations. Humans created multiple fictional layers so they could live multiple lives simultaneously. They gradually created a…

I was a “zombie” for “The Walking Dead” I remember the day I first “discovered” Robert Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead” as if it happened today. I heard about the show through commercials, social media, and from friends, but it never really captured my full interest because it seemed like a generic zombie action movie, and I’ve already seen plenty of those. Anyway, one day, while playing on my PS3, I found myself bored out of my mind because none of my friends were available and I didn’t have…

In lecture this week the theme for the readings are based around Popular Culture. The first reading titles “Our Zombies, Ourselves” by James Parker he explains the role of fictional monsters in the popular imagination. Parker’s essay is an extension of Toro and Hogan’s fascination with vampire myths just in reference to zombies. He picks various films and books that depict the elements of a zombie threw the writers eyes. He also chooses to cite a Canadian punk band which shows another variation…

Pencil Me In For The Zombie Apocalypse Legends of the risen dead have come from most of the world’s cultures in order to encourage fear or hope-based obedience. However, countries like England, Germany, and America have begun to use such concepts to entertain the masses through books and movies that depict the life one would experience during and after a zombie apocalypse. The zombies typically seen in movies come in three categories; zombies raised specifically to serve a master, zombies…

Surviving a zombie apocalypse is very terrifying and dangerous. First of all, if you’re going solo then you might have a greater chance of dying. But being alone is also better, when you have a scarce amount of food, then it might be better to be alone. Having more people with you though will decrease the possibility of getting bit or dying. When somebody is bitten by a zombie you are to kill them. Killing them will help you, so when they die they won’t become a zombie and murder you. So anyway,…

Warm Bodies: A Metaphor of Materialism’s Effect On People Warm Bodies by Issac Marion describes a world where humans coexist with zombies. In the novel, people are turning into zombies for unknown reasons. These zombies do not feel anything but hunger and mostly do not aware of the world around them. Issac Marion uses the zombie genre to represent the materialistic world and suggests that materialism is self-destructive because materialists are more likely to be selfish, insensitive and unhappy.…

People may not have realized this yet, but the zombie apocalypse has already started. From living rooms to coffee shops or on the streets of any neighborhood, mindless de-animated sacks of meat spend endless hours consumed and mesmerized by their digital devices. These human husks have the appearances of the living, but lack free will as they are chained to the screens of their televisions, laptops, or smartphones. These technological devices have changed everything in modern society; it has…

zombies aren't a threat They're just sick people, Not horrible monsters. Where as in night of the living dead zombies are horrible monsters to be murdered mercilessly. This book challenges the tropes and themes of the zombie genre. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs a good, gripping read with a story as well as action. The Rot and Ruin, a wasteland ravaged by the zombie plague, an emp and fear of the “first night”. In the small town of mountainside, there are rules. And when you…

Zombies in today’s society are recognized as slow, dead, flesh eating creatures that take over the world, such as in The Walking Dead. When zombies come to mind, people think of apocalypse, destruction, and end of the world or humanity. Overtime, the concept of zombies is changing, so is people’s concept of technology. Technology is controlling people’s lives, just like zombies might take over the world someday. For example, when a group of people go out for dinner, they do not socialize with…

the creek. The ground directly behind Charlie caved in and split into a newly formed crevasse as a set of twisted and rotten hands emerged followed by an equally grotesque head and neck. We were now surrounded by a small army of the living dead, or opportunity to hightail our asses out of there long passed. If I had to guess I would have said forty-nine of them in total, the exact number that had died on the train wreck all those years ago. Forty-nine lost souls waking up from their…