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Zombies! They're Us!
Abstract. This paper is a “subversive-fulfilment” shaped, theological cultural analysis of George A. Romero’s zombie and its progeny. First, it demonstrates that these memetic artefacts intentionally and unintentionally transmit a critique of human nature through metaphor, cinematic devices and by stimulating and exposing an apocalyptic fantasy. Then, it brings Christian theology into conversation with these artefacts’ worldview and apocalypticism, construing them using Christian categories. It finds that the Christian worldview construes the artefacts as a...
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Introducing The Exegesist
To my mind, there are at least two kinds of horror: sophisticated horror and gratuitous horror. Sophisticated horror is ultimately perlocutionary, which means it attempts to convince and persuade filmgoers to act. It might do this by means of allegory, commentary or critique, for example, and/or by creating a threat or monster to function as a metaphor, mirror or sign post, concretising some abstraction, externalising some inner reality or magnifying humanness. The point of this...