Jamie Hunter
Analysis 5 Assignment 1-3-6
Popular Beliefs, Myths, and Popular Icons best relates to my popular culture topic because people picture many different images when they hear “The Walking Dead.” They may think of something scary, something not believable. The Walking Dead fans may visualize the fictional zombies as something supernatural. The dead walking the earth is a little revelation of a parable of how people feel as they proceed with the daily ins and outs of their own lives. Zombies are popular icons because they are the bad guys that the heroes can easily kill without sending a vivid message that actual people are being slew.
In research of the show “The Walking Dead,” I found that it has a large following of viewers. People like scary stuff with a message. Although it is frightening, the show also has heroes, villains, and damsels in distress. It has morals, lessons, and strategy plans. The show can show an extensive range of commercials because the audience is broad as in; it is watched by the old, the young, males, and females. Every age group and gender can visualize them self as one of the characters, because the show has survivors that fit in all age groups and gender groups. It also has the law abiding and the lawless, the miracles, love and heartbreak.
I look at the show “Walking Dead” as a consumer product now that I have completed the Pop Cultural class. The writers are very clever. The writers realize that people are programmed by what they watch. For example, the characters on the show often have to acquisition vehicles, weapons, long shelf life foods, etc... People watch this and subconsciously get the notion they need these certain basic things in order to survive. A SUV truck commercial is plugged in alongside bottled water commercial. Not only does the show sell by its commercial, it sells by the contents of the show.
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