Zombies are critical repositories of social fears and desires related to capitalist wage slavery, race, gender, and the political power of the masses, and as such, they demonstrate how representations and performances of death, in widely different forms, have served remarkably consistent functions in the United States throughout the past two centuries. culture provides insight into how we approach death, try to diffuse its potency, and use it to make political interventions into everyday life. Zombies are familiar characters in comic books, video games, television and film, but with thousands of people dressing as zombies and taking to the streets, it becomes clear that the kinds of work zombies do in U.S. These events, where groups of people dressed as zombies lumber through the streets, have been happening globally since 2001 and entice up to several thousand participants for each walk. Rather, these teens were “zombies,” waiting to participate in a Zombie Walk. They were not crime victims nor movie extras.
UnrestrictedIn October 2009, five pale, blood-stained teenagers sat on a curb in Newhall, California.
