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Zombies zombies everywhere, what is one to think?
No full textFor decades we have been besieged by a growing pop-culture phenomenon – a zombie themed phenomenon. True to themselves zombies seem to be multiplying and infecting all forms of cultural production and discourse! Zombies have found their way into everything from music videos to pornography – we won’t go there – and are even employed in academic studies where they have been used to test disease vectors, utilised in philosophical mind-games, and mobilised to extrapolate on theories of international relations. (Drezner 2011) Scholars have charted the evolution of the zombie and uncovered a myriad of meanings and signifiers. Recent scholarship has questioned whether the zombie represents our own prehistoric past, acts as a mirror reflecting present anxieties, and our fears of a post-human technological future. Or, perhaps more significantly, represents the repressed knowledge that we are a fated civilisation (Christe & Lauro, 2011)
“The Romeroesque” – Playing with Ethics & Ideology in Zombie Games, from Indie to Mainstream and Around Again
No full textThe videogame zombie has its origins with one man – the independent film maker George A. Romero. In 1968 Romero, a college dropout who made commercials and industrial films in downtown Pittsburgh, decided to seek investment to make a low budget horror movie. After securing a modest investment from local businesses Romero and friends raised the meagre budget of $114,000 (Russo 2012). Lacking the cinematographic skills of Hollywood filmmakers but influenced since childhood by Powell & Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffman (1951), EC horror comics, and science fiction cinema Romero began creating a movie
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
No full textCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather requesting that congress pay W. W. Bass the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for his properties
Stephen Graham Jones - Sowell Conference 2017
No full textStephen Graham Jones, University of Colorado-Boulder, author of "Mongrels" and "Growing Up Dead in Texas
Letter from Stephen Mather, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen Mather to Carl Hayden regarding the sale of Bass properties to the Santa Fe Railroad Company
Letter from Stephen T. Mather to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen Mather to Carl T. Hayden regarding automobile regulations within Grand Canyon National Park
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