Entry #2 is a paper I'm really fond of and will be revising when I have the time. Those of you familiar with academic writing will probably be able to tell that this should be a much larger paper. In too few pages, I tried to provide a history of the zombie genre, detail the ways in which I think it systematically deconstructs binaries, and analyze two films, a comic, and a novel. The paper needs to be considerably longer in order to properly dig into the "meat" of these texts, but this is a good start and it was an incredibly fun paper to write. I am especially excited about it because I have always been interested in the intersection of cultural geography and film and this paper provided me with some of the material for another research paper this semester. Also, I was glad to be able to finally articulate some of the vague ideas I had about the tonal seachange in recent zombie films. Finally, it allowed me to not just make peace with Land of the Dead, but to really, really enjoy it from a critical perspective.
I had to monkey with the formatting when I switched it to single space, which I believe is way easier to read. If I could, I'd write every paper single-spaced, Chicago style, with links and graphics...but I won't get started on that rant. Anyhow, as a result of changing things around, the graphics are not the best. I also need to figure out why all my docs look like crap on Scribd. Okay, enjoy:
Horde
