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HUM 240: The Zombie In Media And Popular Culture
Note: Dates and assignments may be
subject to change.
Please bring assigned text(s) to
class.
Readings
should be completed before the dates indicated below.
Pursuant
to the character of the genre, some of the course material is graphic in
nature.
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1: Introduction
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2: Studying Media, Popular Culture, and Zombies
Read
- Generation Zombie: “Zombies as Internal Fear or Threat” (18-26),
American
Zombie Gothic: “The Zombie Film and Its Cycles ” (9-36)
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3: The Voodoo Zombie
View
- White Zombie (1932)
Read –The Serpent and the Rainbow (Excerpts, Handout), American Zombie Gothic:
“Raising the Living Dead: The Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie” (37-63),
“The Return of the Native: Imperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie” (64-93)
Journal #1: White Zombie
Read –The Serpent and the Rainbow (Excerpts, Handout), American Zombie Gothic:
“Raising the Living Dead: The Folkloric and Ideological Origins of the Voodoo Zombie” (37-63),
“The Return of the Native: Imperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie” (64-93)
Journal #1: White Zombie
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4: George Romero I
View
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “The Rise of the New Paradigm: Night of the Living Dead
and the Zombie Invasion Narrative” (94-128), Generation Zombie: “Lost Bodies/Lost Souls: Night
of the Living Dead . . . as Vietnam Narrative” (67-76)
Journal #2: Night of the Living Dead
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “The Rise of the New Paradigm: Night of the Living Dead
and the Zombie Invasion Narrative” (94-128), Generation Zombie: “Lost Bodies/Lost Souls: Night
of the Living Dead . . . as Vietnam Narrative” (67-76)
Journal #2: Night of the Living Dead
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5: George Romero II
View
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “The Dead Walk the Earth: The Triumph of the Zombie Social
Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead” (129-157)
Journal #3: Dawn of the Dead
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “The Dead Walk the Earth: The Triumph of the Zombie Social
Metaphor in Dawn of the Dead” (129-157)
Journal #3: Dawn of the Dead
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6: George Romero III
View
- Day of the Dead (1985)
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “Humanizing the Zombie Via Cinematic Suture “ (166-174),
“The Pathetic Dead of Day of The Dead” (174-190)
Journal #4: Day of the Dead
Read - American Zombie Gothic: “Humanizing the Zombie Via Cinematic Suture “ (166-174),
“The Pathetic Dead of Day of The Dead” (174-190)
Journal #4: Day of the Dead
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7: Romero Revisited
Read - Generation Zombie: “Ztopia: Lessons in Post-Vital Politics in George Romero’s Zombie
Films” (90-100), “Bootstraps for the Psyche” The Early Work of George Romero” (232-234),
“The Dead Trilogy: A Case of Governmental Ineptitude and Personal Survival” (234-237)
Journal #5: George Romero’s Influence
Read - Generation Zombie: “Ztopia: Lessons in Post-Vital Politics in George Romero’s Zombie
Films” (90-100), “Bootstraps for the Psyche” The Early Work of George Romero” (232-234),
“The Dead Trilogy: A Case of Governmental Ineptitude and Personal Survival” (234-237)
Journal #5: George Romero’s Influence
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8: Other Media: Pop Music and Video Gaming
View:
“Thriller” (1983)
Read – Generation Zombie: “Rhetoric Goes Boom(er): Agency, Networks, and Zombies at Play”
(219-230)
Journal #6: “Thriller”
Read – Generation Zombie: “Rhetoric Goes Boom(er): Agency, Networks, and Zombies at Play”
(219-230)
Journal #6: “Thriller”
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9: Spring Recess – No Classes
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10: The Zombie Re-imagined
View
- 28 Days Later (2002)
Read – “Zombies in a ‘Deep, Dark Ocean of History’: Danny Boyle’s Infected . . . as Metaphors
of Postwar Britain“ (165-181)
Journal #7: 28 Days Later
Read – “Zombies in a ‘Deep, Dark Ocean of History’: Danny Boyle’s Infected . . . as Metaphors
of Postwar Britain“ (165-181)
Journal #7: 28 Days Later
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11: Laughing at the Zombie
View
- Shaun of The Dead (2004)
Read – Generation Zombie: “Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Zombie: From Suggestion
to Contagion” (113-129)
Journal #8: Shaun of the Dead
Read – Generation Zombie: “Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Zombie: From Suggestion
to Contagion” (113-129)
Journal #8: Shaun of the Dead
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12: The Zombie as Other
View
- American Zombie (2007)
Read - Generation Zombie: “Gray is the New Black: Race, Class, and Zombies” (130-146)
Journal #9: American Zombie
Read - Generation Zombie: “Gray is the New Black: Race, Class, and Zombies” (130-146)
Journal #9: American Zombie
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13: Zombies on The New York Times Best Sellers
List (Fiction)
Read
- The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) and World War Z (2007)
Journal #10: The Zombie Survival Guide
and World War Z
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14: The Merging of Comics and Television
Read
and View – The Walking Dead (Vol. 1 2006/ TV Premier 2010)
Journal #11: The Walking Dead
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15: Zombiemania: Zombie Walks, College Courses
and More
Read - Generation Zombie: “Generation Z, and Age of Apocalypse” (1-17), “The E-Dead:
Zombies in the Digital Age” (194-205)
Final Project Due (early projects encouraged)
Read - Generation Zombie: “Generation Z, and Age of Apocalypse” (1-17), “The E-Dead:
Zombies in the Digital Age” (194-205)
Final Project Due (early projects encouraged)
FINAL EXAM: TBA
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