What Makes Zombie Stories Meaningful? (Patreon)

What Makes Zombie Stories Meaningful?

Sign up to Curiositystream and get access to Nebula, where you can watch an extended and unrated cut of this video: https://curiositystream.com/likestoriesofold Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Follow me: Sign up for my weekly newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/likestoriesofold Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: What are zombie stories really about? When do they succeed, when do they fail? Let’s find out! 0:00 Introduction: The Zombie Genre Uprising 2:48 Part 1: Myth of the Dead 7:25 Part 2: Survival Fantasies 13:56 Part 3: Masks Off 22:18 Part 4: Meaningful Inhumanity Sources: Max Brooks – World War Z: https://amzn.to/3Ak9lIu Entertain the Elk - The Day The Walking Dead Died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9xMqtIWYQE Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking Media included: 28 Days Later; A Quiet Place II; Alien; An American Werewolf in London; Army of the Dead; AVP: Alien vs. Predator; Black Summer; Dawn of the Dead 1978 + 2004; Day of the Dead; Dead Alive; Dead Snow; Dying Light; Edge of Tomorrow; Godzilla vs. Kong; I Am Legend; King Kong 1933 + 2005; Kong Skull Island; Night of the Living Dead; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Predator; Reign of Fire; Shaun of the Dead; Terminator 2; The Last of Us 1 + 2; The Girl With All the Gifts; The Shape of Water; The Tomorrow War; The Walking Dead; Train to Busan 1 + 2; Van Helsing; Warm Bodies; World War Z; Zombieland 1 + 2 Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Music: Makeup and Vanity Set – Mourning Rite Cathedral – Delirium Alistair Sung – Searching the Unknown Dexter Britain – Ocean Breeze Dexter Britain – What is Lost Madron – Allude Ryan Taubert – Fool A Taylor - Flutter Music licensed from Musicbed. Elevate your videos with record-label quality music here: http://share.mscbd.fm/likestoriesofold