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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
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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