Kim Paffenroth's Page on his zombie-related fiction and non-fiction
The gal's a real sport, you got to give her that - standing so close to big, gross me!
I get to sell my zombie books in the Dawn of the Dead mall, next to a smart and pretty woman like Julia: how exactly could my life get better?
posted by KPaffenroth at
11:41 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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Now that is a prime location! Sounds like you have good help, too. What's it like to actually be there rather than simply see it on the movie screen? Is there anything you notice being there in person that you didn't before?
It's very moving, being there where it actually happened, but the mall is completely different, so mostly you notice how things are different than in shots that you remember.
Watching Dawn of the Dead, that makes a lot of sense. I mean, while it can hardly be the director's original meaning, I notice the mall looks a lot like the malls here in Colorado that got old and closed, so in my mind when I watch the original, the setting always gives me a certain capitalist gothic vibe.
oh most definitely. Though the area around Monroeville Mall has sprawled with the various "box stores," and they've added a separate outdoor "District" of more upscale shopping and dining, the original layout of the mall is very 70s: it's one long box, with anchor stores at both ends and one in the middle. It reminds me very much of the original Tyson's Corner (which was even more primitive, in that it was "only" one floor).
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