The idea of zombies destroying all human civilisation as we know it, and being humans that do it is eerily similar to bourgeoise fearmongering of societal overthrow by angry hordes.
The zombie affliction spreading from person to person is comparable to a belief spreading through society.
People fantasise about this outcome, in part because they hate how we live currently and in part because they think they'll be badass survivors instead of just the food.
It subconsciously spreads the idea to people that massive hordes doing something is bad and that the rugged individual survivor is good.
I always saw zombie stuff more about the destructive power of the commodity form. How it totally alienates us from our fellow man to the point that we literally consume each other.
The first popular zombie movie took place in a mall for a reason.
then it became the fear of "totalitarianism" turning everybody into a mindless horde, then the critique of consumerism we see in the romero movies, and after that we see the shift to the post-apoc survivalist genre. with zac snyder's romero remakes representing a decidedly libertarian and reactionary take on the subject, whereas train to busan does the based thing and turns the zombie apocalypse movie into a socialist parable about the vital need for collective action and altruism.
the anticommunist reading of the zombie film is one, but the other (and more true to the origins of the modern genre) is implicitly pro-zombie---think 'humans are the real monster' stories.
Zombies are an interesting genre to analyse.
The idea of zombies destroying all human civilisation as we know it, and being humans that do it is eerily similar to bourgeoise fearmongering of societal overthrow by angry hordes.
The zombie affliction spreading from person to person is comparable to a belief spreading through society.
People fantasise about this outcome, in part because they hate how we live currently and in part because they think they'll be badass survivors instead of just the food.
It subconsciously spreads the idea to people that massive hordes doing something is bad and that the rugged individual survivor is good.
I always saw zombie stuff more about the destructive power of the commodity form. How it totally alienates us from our fellow man to the point that we literally consume each other.
The first popular zombie movie took place in a mall for a reason.
The original idea of zombies came from slaves who feared being worked to death, then being forced to labor and toil beyond death...
then it became the fear of "totalitarianism" turning everybody into a mindless horde, then the critique of consumerism we see in the romero movies, and after that we see the shift to the post-apoc survivalist genre. with zac snyder's romero remakes representing a decidedly libertarian and reactionary take on the subject, whereas train to busan does the based thing and turns the zombie apocalypse movie into a socialist parable about the vital need for collective action and altruism.
Getting our shit appropriated is a basic fact of contemporary socialism
the anticommunist reading of the zombie film is one, but the other (and more true to the origins of the modern genre) is implicitly pro-zombie---think 'humans are the real monster' stories.
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