Comments on: [Guest Post] Women In Horror Month: Women Killing Zombies /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/ A feminist pop culture adventure Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: An Accumulation of Blogs – Chris Farnell /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-499645 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:20:39 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-499645 […] An old piece from the excellent feminist pop culture blog Bad Reputation, this was written back in the days when I was known mostly for writing about zombies. In article I talk briefly about the history of how women are represented in zombie movies, how they’re often granted more agency than elsewhere in the horror genre, and yet are still excluded from the power fantasies people go to zombie movies for. […]

]]> By: The Never-ending Zombie /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-39302 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:20:21 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-39302 […] anything vaguely zombie-related posted there since January. In February I wrote about the role of women in zombie movies, because that’s a rant I’d been waiting to have for a while. But that was it, I’ve talked a […]

]]> By: Night of the Living Dead (1968) | c.taylor /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24550 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:06:22 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24550 […] Related: Women Killing Zombies […]

]]> By: Chris Farnell /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24250 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:13:36 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24250 In reply to Debi.

Although even here, Yvonne had A: the maturity to actually start putting money down for a mortgage at the start of the film, and B: the foresight to head for the military base as opposed to, well, the pub (admittedly marking the first time in zombie movie history that going to the army base turned out to be a good idea).

]]> By: Debi /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24231 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:50:30 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24231 In reply to Chris Farnell.

I could definitely have been more specific, my bad!

(Yvonne from Shaun of the Dead, so no one else has to do that.)

]]> By: Chris Farnell /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24214 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:53:15 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24214 In reply to Chris Farnell.

Ahh! Never mind! Finally found the secret combination of search terms to unlock the Google result. Ashamed to say I never remembered her character’s name, she was locked in my brain as Jessica Hynes/Stevenson/Daisy from Spaced.

]]> By: Chris Farnell /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24212 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:48:39 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24212 In reply to Debi.

Which Yvonne?

]]> By: Debi /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24156 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:42:14 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24156 This is basically exactly why I always wanted to see Yvonne’s story.

]]> By: Emmet /2013/02/19/guest-post-women-in-horror-month-women-killing-zombies/#comment-24090 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:26:55 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=13151#comment-24090 See I am curious to see Warm Bodies, which does feature a woman protagonist – but then the narration is from the pov of a zombie. Huh. See also Boy Eats Girl.

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