Symbolism In George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead?

George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead is a part of the trilogy while still being a perfect example of the social issues during the eighties. It was the Reagan era and therefore most horror filmmakers at the time were dealing with oppressive nature. Romero successfully portrays the social issues in his movies of the respective times of their releases. He shows the domestic racism and the Vietnam War in the movie Night of the Living Dead (1968), he also comments on the society’s obsessions with consumerism in the seventies with his movie Dawn of the Dead (1978). The movie is not different when it comes to criticizing the social issues. The Day of the Dead concentrates on societal concerns and humanity in general, although Romero’s main fight is amount of power and control given to military and judging if this is a good idea. This film is regarded as one of the most political zombie movie. Day of the Dead is the most gore cinema when compared to the previous two in the trilogy saga, but the humor is mild in this film compared to others. The audience also witness the evolution of zombies. The film is a direct address to the nature of human emotions and prejudices that tear the society apart.

Zombies, as we know them today, have mortified movie viewers for the last forty six years. Modern zombies first appeared in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968. These zombies were the slow moving, staggering ghouls that one has seen in countless films, but in 1985, Return of the Living Dead featured a new kind of zombie, the first fast moving and talking ghoul. Both Night of the Living dead 1968 and Return of the Living Dead 1985 feature the zombie as its villain, but Return of the living dead’s fast moving, talking zombies are a more modern take on the movie monster.

In the modern movie genre, horror movies accounts for very great proportion of the number of followers. Relevantly, the zombie film genre has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream horror, replacing the previous monster such as vampires and werewolves. In Max Brooks’s essay “The Movies That Rose From the Grave”, he offers his opinion that throughout the process of zombie film transformation, it increasingly captivates viewers while gradually generates the modern horror. Brooks’s essay should be an appropriate inclusion of a college textbook which explains the phenomenon of the “undead explosion” in various kinds of media, proving to the audiences with enthusiasm, interest, credibility and specific examples that zombie culture is resurrecting a formerly obsolete genre.

When analyzing this piece of writing it is clear that the purpose is not to entertain or persuade. The purpose, instead, is to inform and give a new perspective on zombie movies in a simple way that an audience of all ages can understand. In Andrew Cooper and Brandy Blake’s, “George Romero Zombie Films: A Plague of Meaning,” the authors walk the reader through how as time changed zombie movies changed with it. The authors further explain how zombies in many movies represent the time and culture. The writers inform the reader through their use of information from past zombie movies and analysis of the events of the times they were made.

Justin Ysunza Mrs. Hawkins English 101 2/21/2016 Although film-watchers might assume Night of the Living Dead is merely a tasteless, blood and gore horror film filled with zombies, its intent is much deeper than inciting fear. This film’s symbolism and its characters are placed in the context of the Vietnam War and 1960s American society dealing with racism and violence during The Civil Rights Movement. The symbols in Night of the Living Dead remind viewers of the Vietnam War and the film uses these symbols to condemn that conflict. Night of the Living Dead was filmed in black and white, which bear a resemblance to the Vietnam War footage that most Americans would watch on the news as they settled in for the evening.

Romero has continued to reemploy the zombie in his films over the last 40 years, his 1968 version of the walking dead has also gone on to become an irrepressible force, having slowly infiltrated and overrun all arenas of mainstream media

The first is an introduction of how the zombie is depicted within different forms of media, and why many people are fearful towards them. The authors feel as though the zombie is a representation of the human’s mortality and how they fear something or someone taking that away from them. The next topic they evaluate is the idea of the zombie’s brain and why it is so important. Many zombie films surround the brain, whether it is eating them or losing control of their themselves. For many people the loss of the brain is a loss of consciousness, and many believe consciousness is what makes us human.

I believe that Romero used the zombies to symbolize oppression and slavery caused by this culture. Mass consumer culture dissolves society as people try to conform to social pressure to have the “newest” and “greatest” goods. The 1970’s represented an era when shopping malls had become a new phenomenon and trend. People were enthusiastic about shopping malls and the cultural fascination with consumerism was born. One scene that stood out to me in the movie was when Francine was attacked, and Stephen only had on his mind how great the shopping mall was.

Dawn of the Dead is a film written and directed by George A. Romero in 1978; it was the second film in his Living Dead series but contains an entirely different setting than that of the first film. In Dawn of the Dead, there are four main characters who survive the zombie outbreak. They flee their first location, a random building, after it becomes infested with zombies; they soon find a shopping mall in which they barricade themselves. It may seem as if this film was just another ordinary zombie film but George A. Romero created a more profound meaning to this film, in particular the role of the mall in his film.

Zombies, generally, are any human beings that are mindless, show now emotion, and are driven to a specific motive. Being this way,

In the past decades zombies have been a staple in horror genre and its popularity has increased since. And it is a no surprise that these creatures have evolved over time. The original definition of the word ‘zombie’ is significantly different from the current popular definition. Since the 19th century the word Zombies is reanimated human corpses with a hunger for human flesh, they are capable of movement but no rational thought, they are usually caused by virus, neurotoxins, or mutation. Zombies can be found anywhere from movies, TV series, video games even books and graphic novels.

The world became obsessed with zombies, leaving monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein far behind. With “The Walking Dead” premiering its first episode on Halloween 2010, and the release of the book Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, 2010 became the year of zombies. Zombieland, World War Z, I am Legend, World War Z all set the bar for the zombie genre in the entertainment industry, and Isaac Marion surpassed that bar. With his book, Isaac Marion added a new twist to the ever growing zombie genre by having a zombie narrator. The zombie genre became very popular as early as 2004 and is still popular to this day, and to release a novel in this genre, it had to be unique, something the audience has not seen before. Isaac Marion was not a popular author

In recent years, there are many types of movie booming on cinema, but the most booming type movie is Zombie type movie. There are serial Zombie movies, like Walking Dead, iZombie too. Zombie is a person whom gets infected by a virus. This virus is dangerous, it can be instantly turn into Zombie. Once you get bitten by Zombie you will be a Zombie too. Zombie mostly loses their humanity and hunt a living creature that exactly is human. The Zombie will chase everything that move and bite the target to turn the target into Zombie. Many Zombie movies were created to describe how Zombie’s story but there are 2 movies very popular, World War Z and iZombie.

The first appearance of zombies dates back to African voodoo. The Oxford english dictionary first appeared in the english language in 1810. It was first mentioned in his book, “The history of Brazil”. Voodoo lore states that a bokor or sorcerer. The victim then becomes under the

Described by The Los Angeles Times as “the father of the zombie movie” (INTEXT CITE) George Romero is an American-Canadian filmmaker who is most known for reinventing the genre of zombie movies and evolving the concept of zombies. After spending many years working on television commercials, Romero sought to create a film. Romero was given a low production budget of $114,000, Eight years later, Romero released the film Night of the Living Dead. It was one of the first movies of its kind; it featured a new idea of zombies. Prior to Romero, zombies were not used often in movies and were portrayed much differently. The evolved concept of zombies was new to the filmmaking industry and brought lots of popularity to the film, which soon became a classic in the horror movie industry. Romero was not trusted and given a very low production budget, he revolutionized the horror film industry by developing a new concept of zombies and reinventing the genre of zombie movies.