Mail of the Living Dead

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 3, 2011 at 2:30am

The introduction asks: "What is our obsession with the living dead?" I actually have a theory about this on the cultural front.

 

T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" is obsessed with images of the living dead, not zombies but life-in-death scenarios. "The Wasteland" is one of the enduring symbols of the previous century - kind of a Homeric epic for those times. It's generally agreed that Eliot was talking about spiritual death in the 20th century, and monotonous and meaningless life in industrial society with only material concerns. We haven't lost much of that yet in our times.

 

I've always thought that idea from "high culture" found it's way into popular culture with the zombie obsession that at least can be traced to Hollywood films of the 1930s and probably earlier - "The Wasteland" was written in the 1920s. The living dead represent life in suburban America and in the Cold War was used to portray life under communism - just to illustrate the way the zombie obsession has persisted and mutated. It shows no sign of slowing down.

 

The mixing of sexuality and death in zombie narratives - that's another topic.

Comment by DKeys on July 2, 2011 at 11:48pm

I guess many Haitians believe they are real. Like people who are under anesthetic-like what the late, great Michael Jackson did to himself

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 2, 2011 at 11:03pm

there was one we watched that was a documentary about zombies, and it had interviews with "real zombies" etc. like, fictionalized documentary. it was odd, but interesting. i don't recall the name though...?

Comment by DKeys on July 2, 2011 at 10:24pm

Flesh Eater-a classic zombie movie second only to Roadkill 4-Vengeance is Theirs

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 2, 2011 at 6:59pm

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 2, 2011 at 5:05pm

playing mombi @ zombiemart?

Comment by DKeys on July 2, 2011 at 4:59pm

My favorite zombie movie---Night of the Comet--off to play Mombie

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 2, 2011 at 4:26pm

and of course, my daughter's favorite:

 

she's also a resident evil fan, but only plays the games when i play with,

and i rarely play video games these days. :P

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 2, 2011 at 1:47pm

wow, is that really the guy prom pride and prejudice? (and zombies??)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 2, 2011 at 1:43pm

There are three film versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Donald Sutherland was great in the second

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