Romero's Zombies

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George Romero’s Zombies <ul><ul><li>Zombies, Culture and Critique </li></ul></ul>

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>Monstrosity is historically conditioned, not psychologically universal </li></ul>

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>“The monster functions as a monster when it is able to condense as many fear-producing traits...

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>“ Monsters are meaning machines” (Judith Halberstam, Skin Shows 21) </li></ul>

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>“ The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries, ...

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>Horror mediates between culture and ideology through an indirect mode of representation that ...

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>The monster as social Other (Robin Wood) </li></ul>

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>"in a world homogenised by the commodity-form, and by money and information as universal...

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>Reactionary horror films figure the monster as social disorder/unwanted desire and reaffirms ...

Monsters and Culture <ul><li>Subversive horror films point to the breakdown and failure of social order’s repression for w...

Monstrology <ul><li>Fusion monsters, e.g. a zombie which is fusion of both living and dead </li></ul>

Monstrology <ul><li>Fission monsters, e.g. a werewolf, which fusion of human and wolf, but separated by time: a wolf by f...

Monstrology <ul><li>Magnification monsters: large and many, e.g. giant ants </li></ul>

A History of Zombies <ul><li>Zombies were first drawn from Haitian culture and voodoo. </li></ul><ul><li>I Walked With A Z...

Romero’s Dead series <ul><li>Romero revolutionized the zombie genre by making them American and immanent to American cultu...

Zombie Cult <ul><li>Zombies gain a cult following and feature in many movies. </li></ul>

Zombies enter pop culture <ul><li>While hardly horror, Michael Jackson’s Thriller video did much to feature the zombie i...

Zombies go mainstream

Zombies go mainstream

Zombies go mainstream <ul><li>San Francisco Zombie Walk (2005) </li></ul>

Romero’s return <ul><li>Land of the Dead (2005) </li></ul><ul><li>Diary of the Dead (2007) </li></ul><ul><li>Island of t...

Romero’s Zombies <ul><li>Zombies resonate with the very processes that produce and enforce social order </li></ul>

Romero’s Zombies <ul><li>"zombies present the ‘human face’ of capitalist monstrosity." (Shaviro, 288) </li></ul>

Romero’s Zombies <ul><li>"zombie tales dramatize the strangeness of what has become real" (Shaviro, 289) </li></ul>

Romero’s Zombies <ul><li>zombies figure a social process that no longer serves ratinalized ends (Shaviro, Cinematic Body ...

Night of the Living Dead <ul><li>Zombies are overt social process of the disintegration of all communal bonds </li></ul><u...

Dawn of the Dead <ul><li>Zombies and consumerism </li></ul><ul><li>Also humans and consumerism </li></ul><ul><li>Capitalis...

Day of the Dead <ul><li>Containment and boundaries </li></ul><ul><li>Cold War </li></ul>

Land of the Dead <ul><li>Terrorism </li></ul><ul><li>Fear of the outsider </li></ul><ul><li>Isolationism </li></ul>

Diary of the Dead <ul><li>Media panic </li></ul><ul><li>Revisiting Night of the Living Dead </li></ul>

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