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