Zombies in popular culture

Fanfiction: On Trial for Kidnapping? While many people find themselves indulging in late night binge-watching or gauging on unhealthy fast food, some would consider their guilty pleasure to be reading fanfiction. Fanfiction is a story written by fans that takes elements from a previously established setting and transforms the already fixed plot into something entirely new. The elements that pre-exist might be characters, locations, objects, or institutions adapted from another source. A…

twisting the myth that vampirism can only be obtained through biting from an infected vampire only. The vampirism spread even to his family and immediate neighbors Mathewson also brings out the vampires as intelligent unlike the popular myth that most are usually zombies, inhuman and dormant. While hiding in his house, Robert could hear the vampires conversing and discussing about him. “Above the noises, he heard Ben Cortman shout as he always shouted. ‘ Come out, Neville!’ Someday I’ll get that…

Serial killers and those that kill in mass numbers are one of the most fascinating topics not only for scholars, law enforcement, psychologist, and sociologist, but also to the average, everyday person such as myself. All of us have in common the fascination with the topic because of the disbelief an individual such as this resides among us. We are fascinated not only because of their minds but because they feed into our fears about danger, death and what lurks in the night, around the corner,…

McCarthy and Hoover “fanned the flames” of fear by wildly exaggerating that possibility. During the height of the Cold War, the fear of Communism reached a fever pitch. The townspeople in Invasion of the Body Snatchers become emotionless, conformist zombies and this illustrates the loss of individual identity that right-wing thinkers commonly associated with Communism. Don Siegel was not the most liberal or left-wing of directors of the 1950s. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers depicts 'small…

I found Roxane Gay’s media criticism in Bad Feminist very compelling through her use of humor and pop culture to make powerful arguments about women’s representation in media. When contemplating my own research in feminist video game criticism, I found myself struggling with how I could emphasize the seriousness of harmful depictions of women in interactive media, when gaming is often viewed as a childish or “fluffy” topic. I found Gay’s breakdown of Fifty Shades of Grey in the chapter, “The…