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Understanding Our Fears: Post-9/11 Zombie Cinema and Participatory Culture in
Understanding Other
Jaime Saure
Outline:
• Topic: Post-9/11 cultural consciousness• Focus: culture helps recycle into new way to look at
the other more positively• Method: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis• TOA: Representations in four films and Participatory
culture; Zed-Events, RFYL 5k, Zombie Squad• Goals: Understand the zombie’s racist manifestation,
prove cultural consciousness in film, and discuss about the positive nature of participatory culture.
Literature Review
• Haitian Folklore Voodoo ‘Zombie’ and the United States
• Birth of the Contemporary Zombie
• More than Just Our Fears
Content Analysis
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake)• Shaun of the Dead (2004 remake)• 28 Weeks Later (2007)• Land of the Dead (2005)
Discourse Analysis
• Zed-Events: Two audience reviews
• Run For Your Lives 5k: One audience informative blog
• Zombie Squad: Wikipedia, Home Page, Guidelines with the Press and Media