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Over the last few weeks life for a lot of us has gone from normal to practicing social distancing and then to living in quarantine. When I was laid off from my job I knew I’d need to find things other than Netflix and Disney+ to…
Month: April 2020
Shockwaves (1977) and The Birth of the Nazi Zombie Genre — On Planet Auschwitz
Originally posted on Thriller/Suspense Film and Writing Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1v6XZJRQDQA?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent What disappeared has every chance of reappearing – Jean Baudrillard The spate of Nazisploitation films in the late 1960s and 70s offer some insight into how audiences remembered the Third Reich and Holocaust a generation removed from the event. Both fascinated and appalled by its…
