Rebecka Gilliam Professor Paul Stark Hum 2020 December 3, 2013 Can a Zombie Have Memories? How do you classify a zombie? Are they just undead, can they be more? Zombies have the following basic characteristics: undead, brainless, and an unsaturated desire to eat human flesh. Slowly, our society is changing the basic zombie, they still want to consume us, however they are gaining intelligence, thoughts and possibly holding on to memories.
From 1968 onward, zombies would grow exponentially in number creating a mass army of the living dead. How did this spread of the zombie disease occur? A person would transform into a zombie if infected with a simple bite of a zombie. The bite would not cause an immediate change but once infected the victim would eventually die from a mysterious sickness and join the ranks of the walking dead. This did not occur with voodoo zombies but only the grave-rising or virus-infected zombies.
From paper to reel, the process of creating Zombies has tremendously evolved with the birth of computer generating image technology. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous, 1960), an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia, also alluded the Zombie's concept, as the goddess Ishtar pledged to “knock down the gates of the Netherworld, and let the dead outnumber and devour the living.” Though the epic does not give any description of the appearance of the dead, the concept of flesh eating dead creatures are still synonymous to the idea of
Natasha Johnson Eng. 101 T-Th 12:30-1:45 Brains: To Eat or Not to Eat : A Comparison of Early Zombie Films to the Walking Dead Fast zombies, slow zombies, Haitian zombies, Riot Zombies, Flesh Eating zombies, Intelligent zombies, dumb zombies…..what do these all have in common might you ask? They all originated from the same basic origin: Fear of the dead rising back to life and overtaking our society as we now know it. For some reason the thought of our deceased loved ones coming back to life and preying on our brains strikes fear into the hearts of the living. Within the confinement of these pages I will illustrate what a “zombie” film should and should not entail, and how far the image of the zombie has progressed into our modern day visage of the term.
Joseph Alvarez Period 4 September 6, 2012 Ms. Wu Pride and Prejudice and Zombies In the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the man character Elizabeth has to fight for survival from a mysteries plague from an English village of Meryton. The plague turns people that have died to zombies. She is determined to stop the plague but meets a haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy in her mission to wipe out the zombie menace. In the beginning Elizabeth meets a boy named Darcy and is attracted to him, then wants to go a ball with him. During the ball zombies start coming out of the windows killing the people there but luckily Elizabeth could fight against zombies with her dagger from her dress to slash through zombies till the finally got out of the ball.
Zombies in popular culture Everywhere we look in the news, media, television, games and in the movies we are seeing all forms of zombies. With the success of television show “The Walking Dead” movies like “World War Z” and games like “Resident Evil” Zombie(s) have become main stream in popular culture (www.esquire.com). Zombie fascination is not new as there are stories and writings dating back hundreds of years on zombies or the undead. The more common reference to zombies is in Voodoo culture where you can raise the dead to obey your commands, be turned into a zombie for crossing a person or be put in a zombie like state and be buried alive as seen in the movie “The Serpent and the Rainbow”( www.imdb.com) . In the movie a journalist is seeking information on a drug that can render a person in a zombie like state where they are buried alive and then emerges from the grave.
Is the movie Fido just another zombie movie, or does it have underlying messages about modern day culture? It’s the 50s and a few decades ago, the earth drifted into some “space dust” which reanimated corpses into zombies. The living populace fought the “zombie wars” (the equivalent of our WWII) for survival until an enterprising company called Zomcom discovered a method of “eradicating” the zombies and a method of domesticating them. Now every family has a zombie to be their slave. The movie has characters that represent different groups of oppressed people in the modern world, Fido and the other zombies represent racism, Mr. Robertson represents heterosexism, and Mrs. Robertson along with other females show sexism.
It opens with the return of a man with the last name Narcisse who says he became a zombie the night he was buried in the ground. He returns to his sister and expresses who he is and recalls what it was like the day he died, and the night he was buried and reawakened. This deviation away from the main story line of Davis’ research is a good use of background information. This part of the article allows you to understand what exactly Davis is going into, and the specific example of zombification that was able to get someone into the country to help determine how the process of zombification comes about. The story then goes through the process of how Davis came to be chosen to explore these claims of zombies in Haiti.
The summary of The Idle Proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, Consumer Ideology, and the Loss of Productive Labor Dawn of the Dead tells a story that many zombies roam in a country. Several survivors found a safe shopping mall with unlimited basic supplies. To audience, they focus on the relationship between zombies and consumerism. Bishop thought zombies are not only the monster, but also a catalyst to show the problem we are facing: pervasive consumerism. Survivors in Dawn lose their original social identity.
The story is told around the life of Helene Lyle. This piece of work fits into the horror category based off of Robin Wood’s definition of horror. Wood’s definition of horror is defined as any text in which “normality is threatened by the Monster” (Wood, 31). Thus Candyman is a horror film because Candyman is the monster who threatens the everyday lives of Helen Lyle and everyone in her community. There are many subsections to Wood’s definition of horror.