Exploring the undead: University of Baltimore to offer English class on zombies

Source: Washington Post Posted By: tesee11 5168 days ago

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 lead 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 gruesomely revivified -- in a new 300-level course at the University of Baltimore titled "Media Genres: Zombies."

Arnold Blumberg, a lifelong enthusiast of popu

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