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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
October 29, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
It is important to remember that the stories I’ve mentioned were never really called “horror stories” because horror as a genre is essentially a ploy to make certain properties more marketable to a segment of the population.
October 27, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
" I can see where it's alarming to see your kid looking like a corpse, but it's all part of rebellion, of saying the "regular" world of mortgages and wars and nuclear meltdown frightens them and they want to distance themselves from it..."
October 24, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
"The zombie consciousness reflects the perfect expression of equal rights in society. There is no difference between boys and the girls in this world—hunger is the organizing principle."
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October 21, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
The tendency is to group fictional treatments of pop culture archetypes such as zombies with similar texts of fiction, but actually non-fiction texts such as this one can be far more reflective of fandom-based learning...
August 23, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Entire worlds have been opened to me as the direct result of my independent studies into what some would call “low brow,” “exploitative,” or “disreputable” art forms.
August 19, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Revisiting some of the pop culture topics covered here over the past few months by way of sharing some related links that get at media literacy, visual literacy, and transliteracy.
July 11, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
"I was once called—and maybe by School Library Journal, actually—a 'literary training bra for Stephen King.'"
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