{"id":376,"date":"2020-05-04T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/?p=376"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:17:54","slug":"imagined-horrors-turned-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/2020\/05\/04\/imagined-horrors-turned-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagined Horrors Turned Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cari Morshead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/files\/2020\/05\/masks-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382\" width=\"481\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/files\/2020\/05\/masks-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/files\/2020\/05\/masks-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/files\/2020\/05\/masks-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/files\/2020\/05\/masks.png 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><figcaption>Hannibal Lecter, Bride of Frankenstein, Zombie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Horror films often serve as metaphors for greater social issues and anxieties. For the zombie subgenre, these anxieties can include society\u2019s fears and paranoia surrounding the spread of life-threatening diseases, which take the form of the cannibalistic undead, and the subsequent struggle for survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living through the current pandemic has felt awfully similar to living through a zombie film. Of course, there are no real zombies in a pandemic, but the ultimate threat that zombies or other monsters pose to our health and safety, along with the ensuing panic, still remains. The virus is widespread, anyone can become infected, and people are dying. This series, inspired by a love of horror films, intends to blend these imagined and real life horrors, as well as highlight the importance of wearing masks to protect the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cari Morshead May 2020 Horror films often serve as metaphors for greater social issues and anxieties. For the zombie subgenre, these anxieties can include society\u2019s fears and paranoia surrounding the spread of life-threatening diseases, which take the form of the cannibalistic undead, and the subsequent struggle for survival. Living through the current pandemic has felt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/2020\/05\/04\/imagined-horrors-turned-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imagined Horrors Turned Reality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face_mask","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jkarson-digitalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}