Think of the readings as lenses through which to look in order to analyze these films.
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In “Slacker Bites Back,” Lynn Pifer tells us that In Shaun of the Dead, “Pegg and Write take an existing cultural monster, the zombie… and show that these horrible monsters are not all that different from the people desperately trying to avoid or kill them.” She suggests that “Shaun of the Dead’s zombies reveal and warn against the deadening effects of modern life.”
How do these ideas play out in that film, and in any other in this unit?
Cohen, in “Plans are Pointless” suggests that “Zombies can and will be not only a distinct social class with their own culture and identity, but a group whose political survival further threatens the fabric of our lives.”
How do you see this concept applying to the film Fido and in any other film in this unit?
Douglas Keesey, in “Intertwinings of death and desire in Michele Soavi’s Dellamore Dellamore [Cemetery Man], tells us that “the film is a study in the subtle relations between death and desire, the carnal and the charnel.”
Discuss this idea. Bring in examples from at least one other film we’ve seen in class.
Steve Shaviro suggests that “our preoccupation with the zombie originates out of the zombie’s relationship with contemporary global capitalism” and that “… zombies present the ‘human face’ of capitalist monstrosity… because they are the dregs of humanity: the zombie is all that remains of ‘human nature,’ or even simply of a human scale, in the immense and unimaginably complex network economy.”
Does this idea play out in zombie comedies as much, or more than, in zombie horror?