Ok, so I think I have a concept for this paper, but would love some suggestions on outside sources I should use as well. I would like to take a closer look at the various ways zombies are depicted in literature (esp. sci-fi) and other forms of pop culture. I haven't seen the Walking Dead, so I probably won't use that, but there's a huge difference between Evil Dead zombies, zombies in The Naturalist, zombies in Boneshaker, and zombies in say, the video game Dead Space. Not just in how they are portrayed either, but their origins are vastly dissimilar as well.
What do you guys think about this topic?
I think it definitely has promise. There's a lot explore in regards to how the zombies' origins affect the way healthy, non-ghoulified humans choose to deal with them (dealings that usually result in dead zombies).
ReplyDeleteI think the I Am Legend novel's vampires/zombies could have a place in this, as a drastic role reversal in human-zombie affairs occurs in the story.
I think it has promise, I was also thinking about writing zombie. However, I was also thinking about trying to write about how zombies and other elements of disasters affect how the human characters interact with one another and their environment. If you have any input on this idea or just your thoughts on it let me know.
ReplyDelete@ Allen, I haven't read I Am Legend, but I have seen the film. I heard (I think in class, actually) that in the novel, it was somewhat of a role-reversal; the zombies were sentient as a culture and the human was more of the plague killing them. I'm torn on using them though, since as you stated they're kind of an awkward zombie/vampire hybrid.
ReplyDelete@Blake, you could actually stretch that more into the realm of coping with fantastic disaster elements, like in Hell is the Absence of God having Angel-disasters, the Godplague (I think that's what it was called) in Elk, and maybe the Naturalist or something.