From Night to Day: Nihilism and the Living Dead

Film & Philosophy (Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts) 3:138-143 (1996)
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Upon its release in 1968, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead was attacked by many critics as an exploitative low budget film of questionable moral value. I argue in this paper that Night of the Living Dead is indeed nihilistic, but in a deeper philosophical sense than the critics had in mind.

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