Introduction

As we all know, diseases, viruses, and bacteria have no boundaries. They may travel from one host to another without a problem and have the ability to spread quickly on a global scale. The movie World War Z portrays very similar characteristics with a zombie epidemic that traveled internationally infecting people, damaging infrastructures, and threating the existence of the human race. Although the movie features a virus that we may never encounter in real life, many diseases can relate to zombie infections. Many diseases have the possibility to not just infect and kill people but also produce the collapse of societal infrastructures.  It is important to analyze the film because it portrays possible real life outcomes from a viral global infection. World War Z uses rhetorical strategies that contribute to making pandemic a prominent fear of today’s media landscape. The movie evokes fear with visuals that anyone can relate to. Presenting it in a way that really horrifies the audience. There is a heavy usage of metaphors that go to support the importance to pandemics. The metaphors used in the film consist of the military, stereotypes of developing nations and anthropomorphism of Mother Nature as a killer. Also, the portrayal of the zombie in World War Z also reflects on our worries about human diseases.

This blog is going to first discuss about literature on zombies in film and the different ideas that are presented within it. Second, the history of the zombie is presented, from when and where did the term zombie first come from. Third this blog will accomplish a series of rhetorical analysis of the film World War Z; Metaphors, fear features and the figure of the zombie will be examined. Finally, as a conclusion, there will be fun zombie ideas presented such as music, zombie make up tutorials, etc.