ENGL 2609H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Max Brooks, Metafiction, The Zombie Survival Guide
26 Mar 2019
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Zombies: like the walking dead and standard zombie narratives stretching back to romero, zombies are slow-moving, unthinking, and persistent predators; threat in numbers. Swarms : hollywood innovation: fast zombie with superhuman strength and ability to sense and avoid disease in the living (in some narratives) Legend/myth making: ow is a monster constructed, first modern monster: the only modern myth is the myth of zombies (deleuze and. Uncanny: someone or something familiar returning in physical form (ghost, doppelganger, corpse: ancient fear of the dead: look dead, unlike vampires, abjection. Brooks on zombies: masculinity, taking back the world, disintegration of families, americans like the zombie genre because they believe they can survive anything with the right tools and talents . The zombie survival guide: metafiction; the civilian survival guide helped, but was still severely limited (197, extensive research has yet to find an isolated example of solanum [the virus which causes its victims to become zombies] in nature.
