The Search for Zombie Consciousness and Agency in AMC’s “The Walking Dead”
The Search for Zombie Consciousness and Agency in AMC’s “The Walking Dead” by Gernot Meyer is a seminar paper published by Bod Third Party Titles in 2017. This 28-page work, written in English, delves into the cultural phenomenon of zombies, particularly as portrayed in the popular television series “The Walking Dead.” The paper examines the evolution of zombies from niche genre figures to prominent elements in media and public consciousness, addressing the complexities of their representation and the philosophical questions surrounding their humanity.
Readers will find an analytical exploration of the nature of zombie consciousness and agency, focusing on scenes from the first three seasons of the series. The paper raises critical inquiries about the extent of human traits retained by zombies, such as emotions and behaviors, and discusses how these elements influence their actions. By situating the discussion within broader academic contexts, including literature, cultural studies, and historical perspectives, this work contributes to the growing body of scholarship on zombie culture and its implications for understanding humanity.
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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, grade: 1,3, Bielefeld University (Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft: Anglistik), course: Modulprüfung (Profilmodul 2 – British Studies), language: English, abstract: Zombies are – considering the significant amount of media input – nearly all around us. What was once a niche genre, has long spread and entered the public consciousness and pop culture through a variety of movies and, more recently, through one very successful TV series adaption of a comic series, “The Walking Dead” (2010) and its recent spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead” (2015). Video game series like Left 4 Dead or Dead Island likewise increased the ever-growing stack of zombie productions. And whereas there were few or no academic works specifically about zombies in the past, there is now a considerable part of academia that explores and observes the zombie from many different angles. There are works which examine the zombie culture according to philosophical, religious, historical, political or even environmental points of view. One issue that is being explored in these works is the question of humanity and how much of it is still contained in a zombie. As zombies are still able to fulfill basic human functions such as eating or walking, this inevitably leads to questions of human and zombie consciousness. If a person is “zombified”, does he or she still have access to the feelings of the person that was bitten? Can these feelings be accessed and influence the zombie’s behavior? Or will a zombie always act like a mindless machine, never stopping and never settling for any less than human flesh? This paper seeks to explore the questions mentioned above by analyzing scenes from the first, second and third season of AMC’s TWD. I will first (Chapter 2) seek to explore how alive and conscious the living dead actually are, essentially ask, how much of a human there is still in them. I wi
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