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My investigation focuses on the Cold War; and how we may observe it’s social and cultural effects through the Zombie Film Genre. I will try to look at this through the defining characteristics and specifics of Zombie Movies produced in that era. I intend to do this through observing key themes in such films as “Night of the Living Dead” and “Invasion of the Body-snatchers”, as well as related works of literature such as “The Culture of the Cold War” by Stephen J. Whitfield, I seek to analyse how far the Cold War mentality can be reflected through the Zombie Film Genre.

I have divided my investigation into four subsections. The first 2 focus on the general background of the situation, while the second 2 focus on individual aspects of the Zombie Film genre and what we can see about the Cold War mentality through this. ( Going to edit this )

The reason I have chosen to study this particular question is that I am fascinated both in the cultural side of Zombie Movies, and on the very real modern day implications of the Cold War in every aspect of our modern lives.