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Professor Elizabeth McAlister Explores Our Undying Attraction to the Undead in Theorizing Religion with Zombies

Professor Elizabeth McAlister Explores Our Undying Attraction to the Undead in Theorizing Religion with Zombies
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Godzilla vs Kong : Monster movies evoke adventure but also dangers of tropics

For audiences stuck in their living rooms, the new monster film Godzilla vs. Kong offers an opportunity to do some armchair travelling. But before you imagine a tropical island getaway perhaps a lounge-chair by a beach soaked in sunshine this is a monster movie and so you must also make room for a scary lurking creature. The duality of these images are with us partly because Hollywood movies have long leaned into colonial representations of the tropics: imagined as romantic palm-fringed coasts full of abundance and natural fertility, but also scary places full of pestilence, disease and primitiveness and previously “undiscovered” creatures.

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