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Voodoo Economics: What Vampire and Zombie Movies Tell Re: Future of Capitalism

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"Could vampires , like the filthy rich, parasitic. aristocratic be representatives of the capitalist class? And zombies...stand for labor and the proletariat? ...these movies would embody the audience's anger and fascination with the money men responsible for the recent economic collapse..."

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/movies/102380-voodoo-economics/
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      ---The irony of fans and viewers delighting in the decerebration of deadheads is that, in a sense, they are rejoicing in killing themselves. Perhaps the most horrific aspect of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, already a Rorschach test of period issues including Vietnam, civil rights, media manipulation, and the encroachment of a police state, was its emphasis on the similarities and bonds between the desperate survivors and the hordes out to eat them. The dead are family members, friends, the people next door. Romero would maintain that chilling insight through each sequel, a series that can be read as a dead people’s history of the United States for the past five decades.

      “I didn’t think of them as zombies,” Romero said when I interviewed him. “To me, they were dead neighbors.”

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