Source: washingtonpost
ZOMBIES 101 IS NOW A CLASS YOU CAN TAKE AT UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
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Is “Night of the Living Dead” a simple zombie film or a subtle antiwar statement? Precisely when did viral pandemic supplant nuclear radiation as the leading cause of zombification? And which sort of animated dead has the greater potential to frighten: shambler or sprinter?
Those questions and others will be laid to rest — and then grotesquely revivified — in a new course at the University of Baltimore called “Media Genres: Zombies.”
Arnold Blumberg, a lifelong enthusiast of popular culture in general and zombie films in particular, is among the first university professors to devote a semester to study of the reawakened dead. His course, and recent offerings at Columbia College, Rice University and Georgia Tech, share a common interest in the zombie movie as an expression of the zeitgeist.
The zombie course covers a mere 16 “classic” titles, from the 1932 Bela Lugosi vehicle “White Zombie” through last year’s “Zombieland,” the highest-grossing zombie film to date.
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I want to enroll in U of B just so I could take this class. Imagine getting credits for this. It’s like browsing the internet for college credits. It’s too good to be true. The course sounds fascinating and fun. Would you take this course?
