Kim Paffenroth
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yellow peril
Interesting observations. And I have to agree with the analysis of TAKEN: though ambivalent about it, so many friends extolled it as the best action flick of recent years, that I sprung to see it on video and it found it to be the most atrocious, racist u ... -
I'd agree with the last
I'd agree with the last paragraph of your comment esp- LAND makes Romero's vision of race/class the clearest, with Big Daddy leading the horde (= foreign, alien, threatening, untermenschen), but the horde turning out to be much more heroic and s ... -
I think zombies are
I think zombies are resilient as a monster and a metaphor, because they can take on new meanings and implications. So fast or angry zombies don't really surprise or dismay me, as they do some fans. But, I have to say, I don't find the zombie as ...