28 Days Later and the Zombie Film

English 165EW
Guest lecture by Steven Pokornowski
(with additional links added by Patrick Mooney)
13 February 2013

Cultural History of the Zombie (asterisks indicate important moment)

I want to highlight major genre shifts, use these to set up a narrative about the genre and the zombie, and use that to begin to think about 28 Days Later, the contemporary cultural moment, and the ubiquity of zombies.

Discussion

I will stress how the zombie and the outbreak narrative (and historically the virus and the zombie) are bound together.

Let's just open a discussion about the film here:

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