Not true, sometimes they also learn about the world through video games like Call of Duty and movies like American Sniper and university professors like Jordan Peterson
Is Peterson one of those cultural marxist professors you hear so much about?
I'm glad they made the point that this is not how the genre has always been. Early Romero stuff had some fantastic politics for the time.
Horror has always had a whole lot of marxist influence. Marx loved his vampire analogies.
There’s a whole podcast dedicated to analysing horror from a marxist lens: Horror Vanguard.
Love the replies being like “muh tv shows don’t cause murders” while completely ignoring the reinforcing of certain stereotypes (White male savior with a gun), the symbolism in the stories and the appeal of the shows to reactionaries.
Wow, I never made that connection in my head, but now it's obvious.
By some strange coincidence I saw a video about this whole thing with Zombie movies shifting away from critique of consumerism. https://youtu.be/Fjm6gdzhoTs
I mean that's not what she's saying. She's making a Gramscian Marxist analysis of the zombie subgenre. Basically the base (settler colonial capitalism) is informing the superstructure (culture) which then further perpetuates and exacerbates the base in turn. If you think culture like movies and tv have no effect on the actions of the general population you're just naive and wrong. Likewise, if you think culture comes out of nowhere to inform the actions of the populace you're also wrong.
Capitalism --> rugged individualism --> zombie movies --> people adopting tactics and mindset of people in zombie movies.
NOT zombie movies --> people being violent Fascists lol
Fuckin thank you.
It’s like people hear the ‘material’ in ‘dialectic materialism’ and completely forget that it’s about the dialectic between the material base and the superstructure.
Protip, don't automatically reject things that sound wrong to you at first, understand what you're rejecting first and be able to defend your rejection rationally, even if you just keep it to yourself.
