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In preparation for another course, I'm doing some major site revision. I've been deleting empty or near-empty pages, restructuring the wiki's organization, and otherwise revising to make it a more useful research resource. More revisions and clearer guidelines will follow.

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I was just wondering where all the Wiki Posts are? Most of the folders are empty and I'm a little too lazy to continue my search of fellow classmates' wiki post. Care to list what you have posted so far? I just want to look at what others have on here and see if my wiki post is on the right track. It doesn't really look like a "traditional" wiki post, but I wanted to keep it mostly content based. Help!

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If anyone has constructive comments for my Humor page let me know. I'm interested not so much about critiques on what has been written, but what hasn't and what film; comic, novel, etc. references should be added.
I completely respect the class as a whole and want to get yawls feedback into this topic.
I have a long list of things to add, but really want the article to be a cohesive classroom effort (for those that want to contribute… I realize some are satisfied to do just the bare minimum for a grade…and that’s totally understandable).
BUT, if you have the inclination, drop a message to me or simply make an addition to the text itself.
I would really appreciate it and want to see what everyone else has to say about this topic. I personally think humor is SO important and very much central to the genre.
That being said, I can't wait to read these messages and additions!!! Most of the classmates have totally proven that their senses of humor are certainly varied, yet completely sharp and relevant to this subject.
I look forward to anyone and everyone's opinions. Thanks for your time and effort (If you choose to spend it and make one that is...ha-ha) –Ty…Bub.

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Keep in mind the purpose of the wiki: to provide an overall sense of the genre and critical commentary on individual texts and themes. I don't think that you need a detailed explanation of the rules here, unless there is something particular about the rules that reflects someting critical that you want to say. So, for example, if you want to argue that the game mechanism that allows rules to change mid-game mirrors how a zomie movie like _28 Days Later_ changes mid-film (from zombies as the antagonists to the military as antagonists), then you'd want to explain that rule a bit. For the most part, though, you want to focus on the "Context" section, which I just barely started. Talk about how the game connects to the notions of the genre. Where does the humor come from? Odd associations like a zombie baseball team? Gruesome humor like how players "die" (can players die)? Also, add some links to the game's official website and other pages on this wiki (like humor).

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I moved Zombie Culture over here because we're doing Cultural Studies (note capital letters), where "everything is a text." So you can study a Zombie Walk in Seattle using much the same critical apparatus as you might apply to a film or a graphic novel. Any event or ceremony is a kind of performance.

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Check this out:

Trailer:

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/first-trailer-for-romero-doc-dead-on/

Official Site:

http://www.georgeromerodoc.com/

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Should these films be divided into nationality? I say absolutely, yes. There's a bunch of Italian and Japanese, movies as well as films from New Zealand and the UK that I want to write about and think it's important to make the distiction between American and foreign films.

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Nightmare" to haunt big screen again
Tuesday January 29 8:50 PM ET


Freddy's back. Again.

New Line is in talks with horror production company Platinum Dunes to re-launch the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie series, the franchise that helped establish the studio.

The first "Nightmare" movie was made by Wes Craven and released in 1984. The runaway success of the film spawned a slew of sequels and created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund. The film centered on Krueger, a serial child killer murdered by angry parents, who returns with a burned face and a razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.

A screenwriter will be hired once the Writers Guild of America strike ends. The producers -- Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form -- are hoping to focus part of the new movie on Krueger's backstory.

Platinum Dunes is prepping another re-launch, "Friday the 13th," which will be directed by Marcus Nispel for New Line, for whom it remade "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and its sequel.

The company is remaking "Near Dark" for Rogue and "The Birds" for Universal. It is also prepping a non-remake project, an untitled David Goyer thriller.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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