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George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (the intro in the TV station…
George A. Romero's
Dawn of the Dead
What's up in 1978?
end of Vietnam War and lingering trauma (national an personal)
increase commercialization and mall culture
questions of LGBTQ rights and pride flag created
Jim Jones and his cult in Guyana; drinking the kool-aid
1970 Kent state shootings (done by national guard)
the intro in the TV station
evocative of blood: it's pervasive in the shot: is it a home? Disorients us to space
Fran as underdog--relies on assumptions about femininity and weakness
claustrophobic setting
soundscape is busy and loud
talking heads, but like real aggressive
questions of "fake news" (doubled with disagreeing with a doctor)
raises questions about entertainment versus public safety
the mechanics of media: the scrolling text that runs alongside other media
who is the media looking out for?
power dynamics: Francine standing up against a white, masculinist station manager
newsroom raises questions of chaos/order
takes something every day and messies it up
the police raid
can't trust authority be it in the media or armed forces; picks up where Night left off with violence of racially motivated armed forces
places violence in an urban setting
made to fear people's reactions and people themselves
the excess of fear: the extremes to control even if it fails
questions about bystander intervention and who polices the racism?
allegedly to take the corpses of the people in the building
what does the imaginative space of the zombie apocalypse allow?
fantasies of individualism (no rules, every man for themself)
express darkest desires (to shoot poc?)
questions how stable our society is, esp organized around gender, race, and class
The Zombie Body--what does it mean?
not human? post-human? kinda human?
beyond gender? post-race? (the makeup gives them all the same skin color)
zombies as hunter for sport/can target practice
"When the dead walk, Senores, we must stop the killing or lose the war"
stopping racial violence; the enemy of my enemy is my friend (the zombie as leverage for an end of racial violence)
self-aware of the larger racial politics in film and culture; uses zombies as tropes to comment on racial violences
ultimately questions the necessity of violence and the useless loss of lives
"some people still think there's respect in dying"
the "rednecks are probably enjoying this"
red flannel vest, police outfit, or orange safety vest
bright colors
tailgating the apocalyspe
raises issues of being desensitized to such violence
relies on regionalist stereotypes
pride in killing/hunting people/zombies
"cause I'm a man" non diegetic
women in the genre: helpless, standing there