February 23, 2007

Course Explores the History and Subtext of Zombies in Popular Culture

By ERIK VANCE

"Zombies in Popular Media," Columbia College Chicago

Many students may feel as if college courses are eating their brains. Not a lot of courses actually examine the process.

This three-week, intensive media-studies course, taught during the winter intersession by Brendan P. Riley, an English professor, traces the roots of zombies from their beginnings, in the voodoo culture of Haiti, to their first appearance in film, in White Zombie (1932),

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