tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post4746097033923592590..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Haunting the Night of the Living DeadK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-83626197599803145322009-05-15T10:34:00.000-04:002009-05-15T10:34:00.000-04:00Cranky, I'd love to have you in a class! What fun ...Cranky, I'd love to have you in a class! What fun that would be. I must admit I seem to have a good group. They have a lot to say and seem to be really on the ball. Great fun!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-36903865762147715112009-05-15T10:18:00.000-04:002009-05-15T10:18:00.000-04:00Like I said, I wish I had a class like this!!Like I said, I wish I had a class like this!!CLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18348533141508294220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-11368483381974674422009-05-15T09:25:00.000-04:002009-05-15T09:25:00.000-04:00Sounds like a fun class!Sounds like a fun class!Alexis Granthttp://www.alexisgrant.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-56263670046822879972009-05-15T08:24:00.000-04:002009-05-15T08:24:00.000-04:00Excellent point, Todd. In fact we've had a bit of ...Excellent point, Todd. In fact we've had a bit of a discussion about misleading trailers (including Mildred's inverse law of trailers) and I made good use of the <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0" REL="nofollow">recut trailer for <I>The Shining</I></A>.<br /><br />The contexts are so important -- if you say the 60s, all the students have an iconic vision in mind, especially around here: Woodstock. They need to be aware of the many tensions that NotLD plays to, e.g. when Ben slaps Barbara the contemporary audience will be seeing a black man hitting a white woman in the midst of the rise of the Black Power and Black Panther movements. When they're trying to barricade themselves, they're quite literally tearing apart the American farm house. To say nothing of the generational splits embodied in Mr Cooper and his nuclear family -- quickly exposed as a facade.<br /><br />It's funny to have to explain the authority that the media once had in the days of Walter Cronkite.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-34115910797494228432009-05-15T01:37:00.000-04:002009-05-15T01:37:00.000-04:00One thing I'd note, particularly to Karen Walker, ...One thing I'd note, particularly to Karen Walker, is how badly representative of the films they advertise these posers are. NIGHT OF THE DEMON particularly, where nearly everyone involved wanted no visible demon, but golly what were you gonna splooge all over the lobby card then?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-69528639687740070172009-05-15T01:02:00.000-04:002009-05-15T01:02:00.000-04:00Sounds like an intensive class--I'm sure your stud...Sounds like an intensive class--I'm sure your students appreciate your insights into the culture of the times as well as the "horror."<br /><br />Jina<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/BerlinSexDiaryJina Bacarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07858018049423464275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-30035074754491733302009-05-14T21:08:00.000-04:002009-05-14T21:08:00.000-04:00Well, true enough -- in Night of the Living Dead t...Well, true enough -- in <I>Night of the Living Dead</I> the "z" word is never uttered. The Ghouls are clearly rendered "others". There are a multiplicity of readings possible.<br /><br />The splits are generational, racial, national as well as along class and gender lines. Chock full of significance!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-66267523496808564962009-05-14T20:57:00.000-04:002009-05-14T20:57:00.000-04:00I'm interested in the way that the ghouls (I hate ...I'm interested in the way that the ghouls (I hate when people call them "zombies", I dunno why) represent the era's most subversive Others: hippies and Vietcong in particular...Peg Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962173147130549677noreply@blogger.com