Few class descriptions can really grab your attention during registration. Really, no one can make economics interesting (well, except maybe John Stossel). The most entertaining class I've ever had was Science Fiction during my junior year of high school. It just boiled down to watching films and tv shows in the genre.
Students at Bowdoin University are just plain lucky. A recent Washington Post article has the professor of this class (see title) answering reader questions about horror in general. I wanted to hear more about the class but her responses are well worth reading. Her best answer had her explaining the resurgence of the zombie flick:
I think that these monsters have made a come back because they are particularly suited to the types of apocalyptic stories we have told about ourselves, especially after Sept. 11. The films in which they are found always feature the theme of survival in the face of a widespread catastrophe, and we have been thinking a lot about that recently. Also, I think that zombies ask viewers to think of the connection between themselves and monsters; as one character in Romero's Dawn of the Dead puts it when asked what zombies are, "They're us."
I can dig it.
The picture, by the way, is from the NES title Ghoul School. Terrible game but neat premise. It seemed appropiate.
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