Impermanência entusiasta: transmutações do modelo romeriano de horror

Abstract

Firstly, we intend to analyze George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) aiming at the historical context of the film, connecting it to the atomic age’s spirit of the time and the countercultural movements of the late 1960’s. Secondly, we will conduct a detailed study on the Romerian’s model of horror – the modern representation of the zombie and its nuances. Finally, we will identify the permanence of this model nowadays and the transmutations that undergoes in new media, following the scientific and technological development. We will also consider the return of the Gothic style at the end of the millennium and the subsequent period of political and economic crisis at 21st century’s first decade, characterized by the emergence of new countercultural movements of viral propagation. Inside this context, the zombie returns once more, as a representation of the oppressed classes, at the post-industrial capitalism era.