Kim Paffenroth's Page on his zombie-related fiction and non-fiction
posted by KPaffenroth at
11:58 PM
I am a professor of religious studies, and the author of several books on the Bible and theology. I grew up in New York, Virginia, and New Mexico. I attended St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (BA, 1988), Harvard Divinity School (MTS, 1990), and the University of Notre Dame (PhD, 1995). I live in upstate New York with my wife and two wonderful kids. Starting in 2006, I had one of those strange midlife things, and turned my analysis towards horror films and literature. I have written Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor, 2006) - WINNER, 2006 Bram Stoker Award; Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead (Permuted Press, 2007); Orpheus and the Pearl(Magus Press, 2008); and Dying to Live: Life Sentence(Permuted Press, 2008).
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Well, having read The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal, this confirmation of the link between social trauma and horror cinema comes as no surprise to me. Out of curiosity, have you had a chance to read any of Skal's work, Kim? If not, you should probably check out the aforementioned work.
Yes, I reference The Monster Show several times in GOTLD.
I think the author is using statistics as a prostitute uses a lampost: for support rather than illumination.
What constitutes a zombie movie? Is this the complete list? Why include some foreign films and not others? Why include some indies and not others. Is it even possible to develop a comprehensive list? What effect does changing technology and, more to the point, increasing ease of distribution, have on the correlation?
I'm not saying he's wrong. Just that I want to see the math.
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