Kim Paffenroth

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Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

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Kim Paffenroth Iona College

September 30, 2009
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Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature Romero zombies undead Dawn of the Dead zombie films zombie movies Curator's Note Here we have the essence of George Romero’s zombies.It comes down to two aspects: 1) zombies are merely people;2) zombi ...

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Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

yellow peril

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Kim Paffenroth Iona College

Monday, September 28, 2009 — 1:58 pm
Interesting observations. And I have to agree with the analysis of TAKEN: though ambivalent about it, so many friends extolled it as the best action flick of recent years, that I sprung to see it on video and it found it to be the most atrocious, racist u ...
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Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

I'd agree with the last

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Kim Paffenroth Iona College

Friday, October 2, 2009 — 4:46 pm
I'd agree with the last paragraph of your comment esp- LAND makes Romero's vision of race/class the clearest, with Big Daddy leading the horde (= foreign, alien, threatening, untermenschen), but the horde turning out to be much more heroic and s ...
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Re: Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

I think zombies are

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Kim Paffenroth Iona College

Saturday, October 3, 2009 — 3:58 pm
I think zombies are resilient as a monster and a metaphor, because they can take on new meanings and implications. So fast or angry zombies don't really surprise or dismay me, as they do some fans. But, I have to say, I don't find the zombie as ...