Critiquing a critic

This article was interesting and I can see why Mrs. Cline chose this to help us with the revising of our final project. This article written by Kyle Bishop showed how a professional literary criticism paper presents their argument, how presenting the right sources and articles can truly make a difference in supporting your argument. After reading this I can see why Kyle Bishop felt zombies represented the social and cultural tragedies of the times that zombie films were on the rise. The article was well written and it flowed perfectly to illustrate the popularity of zombie films when the world is facing events such as wars, natural disasters, or even financial crisis. I had written my final paper on Aliens and I had similar feelings associated with aliens. I felt aliens were used as a manifestation of the fears and anxieties that people were having at the time with events such as war and invasion of other countries. I felt this because the way the films portrayed aliens, the scenes of war between the human race and alien invaders. I honestly never imagined how zombies related to events such as natural disaster or even financial crisis as Bishop states in his article. I felt zombies could represent the fears of the spread of deadly diseases, or infections. An example the black plague event in 1348, a disease that spread through Europe. The swine flu or even the Nile virus can be used to describe the fears associated with the spread of deadly diseases. I feel these can be related to zombies, because the way the films portray the reasons for zombies. Most of the zombie films begin with the outbreak of an infection that causes the rise of the undead that just spreads until everyone is infected.

Bishop took a deep look into every detail that revolve around zombies, such as the way they are described and what they represent. They are dismembered figures, in a state of decay and represent death. Bishop used the dismemberment and related it to a scene from the Vietnam War. He used zombies to be the end of social order. Bishop states, the end of the world means the end of capitalism, everything is up for the taking.Law enforcment is no longer in command, I  can see how financial crisis can relate to this as well.  This is an image in many zombie films that I have never paid much attention to.He gave me a lot to think about.  This is a link to an article I found intresting. http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/19/zombie.warning/index.html