The Illusions Win Out

One more for the fire

KMO welcomes June Pulliam, lead editor for Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth to the C-Realm to talk about how time and again, the characters in zombie apocalypse fantasies find more meaning and personal satisfaction in cooperating with other survivors to weather the storm of the undead than they did in the vacuous and routine existence of life in modern, industrial civilization. In the second half of the program they discuss the changing gender roles in zombie movies, games, and novels over the decades and how the most adaptable and resilient characters are those who can alternate between stereotypically male and female coping strategies.

 

Music by Sek.