The Aesthetics of Risk by Jordan S. Carroll

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Find more information on preparing for the zombie apocalypse (or any other disaster) by visiting Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website.

This critical essay on 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead assesses both speculative/horror/zombie films in terms of risk management in the 20th/21st centuries, with reference to disaster preparedness and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[Insert revised text from Criticism Essay. Be sure to include quotations from the article itself, illustrative stills to accompany the text, and plenty of your own analysis! Link this analysis to your other critical essays as well as the overall argument/theme.]

[TIP: to make this section on criticism more engaging, I've included outside source material from the CDC. What social or other real-world issues does your film consider? How do critics engage those issues? How can you in turn engage a visitor to your website? Again, think visuals, but don't be afraid to pull in all sorts of references.]

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The Aesthetics of Risk by Jordan S. Carroll