4/8/20 Class

CMN 201

4/9/20

Topic: Night of the Living Dead and The Exorcist

Note: I will be in our class live chat room during our scheduled class for questions/comments/issues

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Zoom Virtual Office Hour 

Tuesdays 1:45-2:45 or by appointment

https://zoom.us/j/7028190433

Meeting ID: 702-819-0433

--- Movie links in previous post

--- 28 Days Later (2000’s)?

Class Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNkdz0_eM

--- Last class (Projected Fears: Chap. 3 Psycho and Nightmares: Chap 5. California Gothic, Chap 6 Hitchcock) 

--- This class (Projected Fears: Chap 4 Night of the Living Dead and Nightmares: Chap 6 Apocalypse, Chapter 14 Romero)

--- Night of Living Dead  (also from 1960’s, decade of conflict/fear)

--- Director George Romero reinvented the zombie (Haitian: film White Zombie, 1932)

---Shoestring budget/Black and White film with copyright error

---Commentary on 1960’s – a film of revolution (Rosemary’s Baby: “God id dead”), Apocalyptic

--- American flag/Time change

---World gone mad

---We are the monsters

---Masses uprising (zombie hordes)

---Collapse of nuclear family (Harry and Helen Cooper, daughter Karen), young love (Tom and Judy), siblings (Barbara and Johnny)

---Inability to work together

---Ineffective  institutions of authority

--- Lead  (Ben) is  African American

---Self-referential: They’re coming to get you Barbara”

---Dark Ending

---Gender commentary?

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--- The Exorcist 1973(see Amazon link in previous post)

---Mass hysteria

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Attendance Question: (please submit vis email with name and class)

What famous person did George Romero work with?