barbed and galvanized
Intense adjectives Harsh -- aggressive
barbed and galvanized
Intense adjectives Harsh -- aggressive
underworld
Death -- Orpheus criminal underworld? -- occluded history?
GGGG
pressed
Repetition of the "pressing" image -- with a difference: childhood wonder vs. modern harshness
vegetating kingdom of the fish and reptile
The ocean? Out of place-ness. Displacement Devolution? Regression to the primordial ooze?
dark downward
Alliteration - dd Negative connotation -- journey to the underworld?
hand draws back
Coming back from the memory Touch the memory Startled by/from the memory?
cowed, compliant fish
Foreshadowing the infantry -- orders Fish make the aquarium what it is -- don't get the credit they deserve --connect to epigraph Fish are out of place! Ariticial environments. Fish are cows?
drifting from the noses
inaccurate -- magical world
burst the bubbles
bbbb
tingled
wonder -- magical
Connotation -- excitement
crawled like a snail on the glass
Simile -- not pleasant -- slimy -- related to aquaria?
Once
Into the past -- memory of childhood.
airy tanks are dry
airy/dry -- goes back to desert -- empty, homogenous, lifeless
snow now
Snow-now: repetition with a difference, long O to the short O
broken windows are boarde
B-B
Sahara of snow
Oxymoron: desert/snow
South Boston Aquarium
https://goo.gl/maps/mAzcw7k3uSahDPy76
https://caughtinsouthie.com/features/history-lesson-the-south-boston-aquarium/
1 2019-05-02T20:37:27+00:00 Emily Kennedy b2e7c8480120b2f68bafcd0de0f17925af3a011f What Type of Crowd is a Zombie Walk?
Is it really worth having this as a digression? Or would it be better to just make it its own subsequent page in the main stream?
Montreal Times
Title Format. Use italics for titles of long & complete works, and quotation marks for titles of short works that are part of something else, e.g. a chapter in a collection or an article in a journal. See https://www.grammarly.com/blog/underline-or-italicize-book-titles/ and https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html.
Proof and change throughout.
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, “the memorial emphasizes the cost of war as well as the importance of peace”.
Reformat with a CMS-style reference; link off the parenthesis.
,
Not needed. Why would it be?
as "A re
Marked vs. Blended Quotation Introduction Confusion: Marked: verb of arguing or speaking, comma, capital letter. Smith (2014) argues, "Lorem ipsum dolor..." Blended: any other construction, including "that" constructions, no comma, no capital. Smith (2014) argues that "lorem ipsum dolor..." See https://youtu.be/qMg9ByNj70U.
e from them.
This sentence lacks a main verb.
Elias Canetti (1962),
Don't link this to Sakai; link it to the WorldCat entry in the PML database.
participant’s
Plural, not possessive.
numerous newspaper articles
When you say things like this, you should be able to follow it with a parenthetical citation that includes all of the references you are talking about.
his
Pretty sure this is a woman.
Participants
Should be possessive.
Also, totally unrelated but I'm putting it here: the image on this page is of really shitty quality. Either make it smaller so the resolution goes up, or find another -- especially since this image isn't topical in any way; wouldn't you do better to have a picture of zombie walk here?
In a variety of zombie walk Facebook groups, including the Flint Hill, Hamilton, and Bristol groups use
Grammar of this sentence is messed up. Reword.
It seems like you should also be able to cite these Facebook pages as documents in your References page, which means you should be able to give them inline citations here.
zombie walks have crossed over to is zombie walks for charity, public spaces occupied by zombie walks, how newspapers and media talk about zombie walks, those who participate and talk about zombie walks, recently cancelled zombie walks due to lack of participation and funding, and zombie walks as crowds
It seems wrong to describe this as a "cross over." This isn't about zombie walks branching out into non-related domains of culture; you are just describing what they do, how they work, and what they mean.
The connection between crowds and zombie walks are shown throughout all aspects of everyday culture
Overstatement. All aspects of everyday culture?
References
What is not at all represented here, and what would have been an easy research get for you -- which I have been recommending all semester -- is all of the popular press journalism ABOUT V&V. Quick Google searches reveal a host of articles that summarize the book in popular publications like Scientific American, PBS, etc. Since your object of analysis in a literature review is the literature, it wouldn't be hard to write a page about the popular reception of V&V -- basically just narrating that they got all this press coverage, they were talked about in certain ways, etc. It's just an account of the splash they made.
That's thematically pretty simplistic, but given that this is a research class, where one of the key skills being assessed is your ability to do find relevant sources, I would think you would want to show that off as much as possible -- instead of the five measly sources you have here, none of which demonstrate that you've even got near the databases we discussed at the beginning of the term.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
All links on this page should be active.
Kirk, Robert, "Zombies", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019. Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/zombies/.
Not CMS format, and not written in 2019. The Stanford Encyclopedia always gives you publication/citation information at the bottom of the page.
Consciousness
This page shouldn't be separate. Incorporate it into this page. I mean, they both have the same image on them. And given the lack of research you have on this subject, there is no reason for you to have two pages, when incorporating that one into this page can help you have more working sources. Take all the text and add it here; edit as needed; then delete the original page.
the initial human’s past life.
None of this is sourced, and it certainly doesn't give us a review of the literature on the zombie problem -- not even a superficial treatment beyond one source that you found online. To do this justice, you would need to look at the writings of Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers, at the least.
both zombies
That's not the zombie problem. It's a related thought experiment about consciousness, but it's not the particle for particle replica.
e 2
Write out numbers under 100.
he same mind”.
Where is this from? You aren't attributing your sources.
(2003)
Hyperlinking.
broader more conceivable sense
Conceivability is pretty deep in the zombie debate, and you haven't even gotten the basic terms out yet. You would do better to focus on the basic premise of the argument.
kirk
Capitalization. There is just a lot that is rough on these pages; they need a thorough editing for basic features of grammar and punctuation.
,
No comma. Why would there be one?
the human mindfulness
Word Choice. That's not what "mindfulness" means. You are ultimately talking about self-consciousness, the ability of the mind to reflect upon itself.
Scholarly works regarding the neuroscience of zombies have predominately focused on behavioral and physical deficiencies due to damage towards specified regions of the brain. However, the philosophical argument to refute the “fictional zombie” lies deep within the notion of the mind, not the brain.
This is a weird transition. I think you would do better to frame this more like: While we have been focusing on zombies and the brain, philosophers have used zombies to debate a related question about consciousness.
studies
Should be capitalized, like all titles.
we will now explain a few different causes
Would it be worth using section headings to make these divisions more visually evident?
There are also language deficits
Existential passive construction isn't helping. How "are there" language deficits?
The next symptom is impaired visual recognition
Given that this seems like a list of symptoms that are linked to regions of the brain, could we do with with another brain map?
We are going to add some color to a few of the symptoms of CDHD
This is vague. It doesn't give me a very good sense of what is actually going to be on the page, and the language below isn't helping, since this seems like another laundry list.
Consciousness Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder (CDHD)
There are no references on this page. Even if this is all just V&V, it should be cited with pages or page ranges. Any idea that is not yours should be attributed.
Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Amygdala
Not sure if these terms need to be capitalized, as they are not proper names so much as designations. Check your source material.
- Nelson and Trainor, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2007.
Not a CMS citation.
ger, it i
Comma Splice. Use a semicolon or a conjunction in lieu of a comma, or split into two sentences. See https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/extended_rules_for_commas.html.
(2014)
Should be hyperlinked.
Thagard
Not a CMS entry.
Mouse over the selected regions of the zombie brain to learn more about them and their dysfunctions.
Given that you've titled this page "Anatomy of the Brain," I think you either need to explain how the zombie brain tells us things about the human brain, or you need to rename the page to make it clear that this is a zombie brain. Either way, you probably need some additional header information to provide context.
.
Maybe something here at the end to indicate what is to come. It's sort of strange to end with this example, without telling us that there is more of this to come.
know
Spelling.
they draw conclusions
Vague.
In their book, they talk about a not very know disorder: Consciousness Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder (CDHD). A disorder that is responsible for “the loss of rational, voluntary, and conscious behavior replaced by delusional/impulsive aggression, stimulus-driven attention, and the inability to coordinate motor or linguistic behaviors.” (Voytek & Verstynen), in other words- Zombism.
Your wording here makes it sound like this is a real disorder. It's not. You need to make it clear that they have invented a disease here -- it's a fictional postulate.
(2014),
Needs to be hyperlinked to the WorldCat entry.
Paragraph
All journal titles should be italicized.
Title Format. Use italics for titles of long & complete works, and quotation marks for titles of short works that are part of something else, e.g. a chapter in a collection or an article in a journal. See https://www.grammarly.com/blog/underline-or-italicize-book-titles/ and https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html.
www.jstor.org/stable/43263685.
All of your hyperlinks should be active. They need https:// headers, and the need to be hyperlinked.
She is saying that some of Agamben’s writing may not be factually based or is dramatized for the purpose of simply being involved in the debate on the ethics of Holocaust testimonial.
I think it goes further than this. I take it that the argument is something like: Agamben is devaluing the real, concrete, historical people who endured the Holocaust (those who survived and those who didn't) in favor of an abstracted "survivor" who serves as a disembodied site at which an abstract "testimony" emanates. Not real people speaking their truths, but a particular subject position making arguments in ethics.
overall argument is to analyze Holocaust testimonial and comment on how some Holocaust authors portray
Argument ≠ intention to do something; it's the something.
and is a critic of his work
Mismodified. Reword.
always read in the way that he intended
That's not a criticism. That's an empirical fact that is not at all intrinsic to Agamben. It's literally true of all writing.
sacrificial
What does this mean?
the absolute” (1).
Oh jeez. This is that kind of nonsense theory that circles around people like Agamben like little birds on a hippo. It's hard to do much with this. But you can be evaluative, and acknowledge the density, perhaps even the quadi-bullshit of this kind of criticism.
Scholars
Who? Parenthetical reference should go here.
extensive scholarly discussion
These formulations seem vague if you are unable to back them up.
his set of ethics by commenting on the ethics of Holocaust testimony
This isn't quite right. It's more like: the question of witnessing (anything) is necessarily an ethical question of obligation, truthfulness, fidelity, etc. What do these concepts mean in the case of the Holocaust, those who survived, and those who didn't? It's wrong to call it "his set of ethics" because ethics make a universal demand -- they are not subject to relativism. But it's also not right to say "the ethics of Holocaust testimony." It's more like he's asking: What does the problem of testimony that the Holocaust creates mean for ethics?
Paul Rabinow, primary author of “Biopower Today,”
List all authors.
biopower can be dangerous when used under the wrong circumstances
I don't think there is anyone who thinks there is "good" biopower. No one speaks approvingly of it, so the entire line of argumentation that this literature review is looking at the dark side seems misguided, because it presumes there is a good side.
raises caution flags
For whom?
on to present different angles on race and biopower in the past in order to show how interpretations have influenced current social thought
Vague.
helped to create a negative image
What does this mean? What is "negative image"?
same networks
What are these? Not clear from context.
argues, “[that]
Marked vs. Blended Quotation Introduction Confusion: Marked: verb of arguing or speaking, comma, capital letter. Smith (2014) argues, "Lorem ipsum dolor..." Blended: any other construction, including "that" constructions, no comma, no capital. Smith (2014) argues that "lorem ipsum dolor..." See https://youtu.be/qMg9ByNj70U.
Sacer,
Needs a year reference.
in different ways, mostly to help explain how and why society thinks the way it does.
Vague. Either explain the different ways or reformulate. And the second half of the sentence is kind of meaningless -- at best, it's a cliché.
subjugations of bodies and the control of populations”
Do you understand the distinction that Foucault is making here: this is politics acting upon the biological organism, rather than the habits and practices of our shared life in a society.
"The History of Sexuality”
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aims to “investigate, and in part critique, Agamben’s Holocaust by posing four interlinked questions” (52).
This kind of stuff isn't worth quoting. It's just a statement of intention. You need to be quoting what comes out of this inquiry -- the destination, not the jumping-off point.
ial/Political Life (Bios) and Biological Life (Zoe)
I don't understand this illustration. Use the captioning fields to explain it and its relevance.
biopolitical states emerge
This is good, but you might want to incorporate Agamben's quotation from Foucault of the purpose of the modern state is to make live and let die. His whole gloss on that gets at his vision of biopolitics in as pithy a form as you are going to find.
personal analysis
Word Choice. This misunderstands what "philosophy" is. It's not an opinion, and it's not personal. It makes a claim on truth and demands your assent.
Enns uses Agamben’s theories to comment on a situation in the United States that she argues involves bare life and biopolitics
This is so bland. You are clearly staying away from doing more than announcing topics because you don't feel comfortable representing these arguments. But that's exactly what you've got to do, and I'd rather see you be bold and take a stab at it than just write these nothing descriptions.
Further, she incorporates Agamben’s suggestion that “power no longer has any form of legitimization other than emergency” into her works (1
This rhetoric is so descriptive. Reframe this as an account of her argument: Further, Enns endorses Agamben's suggestion that "power no longer has any form of legitimization other than emergency," essentially contending that governmental power no longer functions to support human flourishing, trade, or even security, but only to suspend the very law it creates, and thus to operate outside of its own sphere.
argument is not clear
This is not a helpful gloss on the limited quotation you have provided. What makes it abstract? What is unclear? You need to give a more specific accounting of Lewis's argument here.
that, “the
Marked vs. Blended Quotation Introduction Confusion: Marked: verb of arguing or speaking, comma, capital letter. Smith (2014) argues, "Lorem ipsum dolor..." Blended: any other construction, including "that" constructions, no comma, no capital. Smith (2014) argues that "lorem ipsum dolor..." See https://youtu.be/qMg9ByNj70U.
exploration and incorporation
Hendiadys. You are using two terms to describe one thing. While this can be used for emphasis, you are just searching for the right term. Pick one. See http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hendiadys.htm.
Again, change throughout.
as, “w
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Her criticism of him surrounds this metaphor because she calls into question
Wordy, repetitive.
You have a lot of room to tighten your formulations throughout. There is just a lot here that is throat-clearing: long formulations to say very simple things.
accuracy and level
Hendiadys. You are using two terms to describe one thing. While this can be used for emphasis, you are just searching for the right term. Pick one. See http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hendiadys.htm.
“degradation of death”
Single Quotation Marks Within Double Quotation Marks. For example: Bob told us, "Fred said, 'Let's go for a walk,' and so we did."
Further,
This is not a "further" insofar as it is not a continuation of Eaglestone's critique.
Muselmann are
I believe Muselmann is singular, and the plural is Muselmänner. So you can use the singular to refer to the type, and the plural when you are referring to a population.
the author is
Avoid "the author" formulations. Just name him -- treat him like a real, speaking person that you are engaged in a conversation with.
bers” (57).
This is a sentence fragment. The quotation introduces the grammatical subject of the sentence, but then there is no main verb.
“open-air”
Single Quotation Marks Within Double Quotation Marks. For example: Bob told us, "Fred said, 'Let's go for a walk,' and so we did."
limit-figure of the human and inhuman
Worth quoting?
are
Agreement. Verb doesn't agree with noun. See https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/subject_verb_agreement.html.
literature and discussion
Hendiadys. You are using two terms to describe one thing. While this can be used for emphasis, you are just searching for the right term. Pick one. See http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hendiadys.htm.
all that was left was their biological makeup
Do you mean this literally or politically?
The state laid a political claim on everything except zoe.
This sentence contradicts the previous sentence, and it is also incorrect, because the whole point is that the German state did lay claim to zoē, to determining what counts as life.
zoes and bios
For God's sake, get this right. It's right there on the page for you in Homo Sacer and you seem unable to spell it correctly. You demonstrate that you are paying attention to the text by actually paying attention to the text. Zoē is always singular because it describes an aspect, it should be italicized, and the e should have a macron over it (yes, you will need to figure out how to make a macron). It's just a matter of care and attentiveness -- that you take this material seriously enough to get it right.
Bare life is exemplified by the treatment of the prisoners in the concentration camps and includes the concepts of zoe and bios. Zoe can be examined under the lens of biological life. It is the life that is common to all living things. Bios is the negation of zoe. It is life in society; your political and social life.
There is a lot that is problematic in this account.
in turn structures the argument
This doesn't make any sense grammatically. The referent for "it" is "politics," but that can't be the agent of "structures the argument." Just slow down and streamline your prose -- more subject-verb-object sentences. Remember our lesson about nominalizations as a way to make your prose more clear.
natural life politicized through its connection and exposure to sovereign violence and death.
This sounds like something from a source. Cite it if so, even if it is a paraphrase.
uses the Muselmann to depict the true witnesses
argues that the Musselmann is the "true witness" to the camps
literature as well as the commentary
Hendiadys. You are using two terms to describe one thing. While this can be used for emphasis, you are just searching for the right term. Pick one. See http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hendiadys.htm.
Go through and remove all places where you use two terms to mean one thing. It's a problematic rhetorical habit.
Remnants of Auschwitz
Italicize titles, just like you would in a paper. Do this throughout.
Also, you need a parenthetical year citation any time you mention a text.
makes several arguments
Vague. Just describe the arguments.
commentary and arguments
Hendiadys. You are using two terms to describe one thing. While this can be used for emphasis, you are just searching for the right term. Pick one. See http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hendiadys.htm.
Anchor Bay
Should include a place name, as per CMS.
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag
If this is a book, as it appears to be, then just cite the book, not the chapter (assuming Mirgani is the only author. If she is only the author of the chapter, then you need an editor.
Resistance: Subjects, Representations, Contexts
If this is a journal issue, it needs a volume/issue number.
Popular Culture
I don't really understand this page. It seems like it is sort of odds and ends, and I don't see how "popular culture" is an umbrella term for it. Consider whether to break this up into separate pages -- one on film editing and one on whatever the later part is about -- or reframing it, or assimilating it to one of your other pages.
around
This is a premise, not a conclusion. You aren't representing the important part of her argument, which would have to do with "apathy and sloth." Quote that part of her claim.
the baleful impact of capitalist production on those whom it exploits
This is a QUOTATION from the article. It MUST be quoted and cited or you are PLAGIARIZING.
The shifts in cultural focus brings zombies to the front of focus.
Awkward sentence, for the repetition. Reword.
Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later
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consume/just consume/eternally/desire
I don't understand this.
We know, for instance, that our needs/desires motivate us to seek their satisfaction, but that we are never really satisfied. The fabulous dinner, the new car, the cool drink, the attractive companion: none fill our desire; all are mere stepping-stones leading us, continually, to more and more wants (Webb and Byrnard 2008, 89-90).
Block Quotation Format: 4+ lines, 0.5" left indent, no quotation marks, citation goes after the final period. See http://liu.cwp.libguides.com/c.php?g=45846&p=291625.
There has got to be a way to indent as well. You could always use a different header style to change the size of the font here.
Land of the Dead
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These references also need parenthetical citations. Any time you mention a title, there should be a parenthetical year reference.
(2001)
This link doesn't open a new window, which it should.
Sarah Juliet Lauro’s “Zombie Theory: Capitalist Monsters”
Zombies aimlessly wander around the Mall
You have inserted ALL of these images incorrectly. It looks like you are doing them with links, rather than with the "Insert Inline Scalar Link" function. Recode them all.
author’s tone is dismissive as
I don't see that in your evidence. Reframe the claim.
shopping mall.
You can get the clip on YouTube where they find the mall: "one of those new shopping malls..." Show it with evidence rather than just talking about it.
“the social abjection of the zombies is established in the film”
Not much of a quotation. This is, at best, just the claim, but really it is just an announcement of the topic.
This style by Romero continues throughout the movie by placing the main characters in the mall
This is obvious. Sentence says nothing.
it is remarked by Steven that the zombies are called to the mall because there is something inside them that is calling them there
Steven remarks,
and then quote the dialogue instead of paraphrasing it.
Internalizing Externalities: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls” by Peter Pashigan and Eric D Gould
Any time you refer to an article like this, it should be followed by a parenthetical reference with a link. Standardize throughout.
ch, th
Should be a colon. Introduce lists with a colon.
1950’s and 1960’s
No reason for apostrophes in these formulations. Not possessive. Remove throughout.
Providence Place Mall
Worth linking to something here. Could be a good popup.
because “The
Marked vs. Blended Quotation Introduction Confusion: Marked: verb of arguing or speaking, comma, capital letter. Smith (2014) argues, "Lorem ipsum dolor..." Blended: any other construction, including "that" constructions, no comma, no capital. Smith (2014) argues that "lorem ipsum dolor..." See https://youtu.be/qMg9ByNj70U.
(2005, 13).’"
Citation placement.
Shoping
Spelling.
Overall
This paragraph doesn't do much for you. It's not an "overall" -- you aren't summarizing so much as repeating here. Second, the second sentence is inaccurate, as "the average businessman" is not the target audience of the mall. The third sentence is good, but could be incorporated into one of the earlier paragraphs.
(1996, 1083).
Not clear from context who this is. The link can't do all of the work for you. You need to add the author's name to the citation or the text.
automobile
I had to remove the image because:
"most Americans to find a safe haven in the new forms of suburbia ... [particularly] retail growth centers."
Who does this belong to? You need to make it clear from context the source of any given quotation. So you either need to work that into the text, or you need a full CMS citation that would include the author and year.
suburb"
solution."
Citation Needed. See https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html for a quick reference and see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_author_date_sample_paper.html for a sample paper.
Gentrification of homes
Something happened to the images when I reformatted the fonts. Fix to be how you want them, which I presume would be inline. (I would delete them from the HTML and add them again.)
This isn't gentrification; this is suburbanization. Gentrification is when you upgrade urban areas; suburbanization is when you build new neighborhoods outside of the city.
(2017, 45).
The year reference should go after the title, and then the page number alone should go after the quotation. Change throughout.
“Target Markets – International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall: Chapter 3, Designing the Shopping Mall”
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Just refer to the book by its title; the chapter isn't important
The first automobile which was important in the development of malls
Can we get a picture that isn't watermarked? And fits in the space?
1960s,”
Should be a parenthetical year reference right here. Any time you introduce a text, there should be a parenthetical year reference immediately following it.
In Romero’s film Dawn of the Dead the director
I've seen various versions of this formula through these pages, where the name of the author is attached to the title in a possessive, and then they are referred to as "the author" immediately afterwards. Why? Wouldn't it be easier to say, "In Dawn of the Dead (1978_, George Romero makes a point..."? This formulation also treats the author like a real, speaking person that you are having a dialogue with; "the author" seems impersonal and distanced. Change throughout.
movies, films and video games
Oxford Comma: commas go between every item in a list.
Economists became interested in the location and layout as it mathematically demonstrated an impact on profits and revenue
Needs Attestation. You need a source that can support this claim. You don't necessarily need to quote it, but you at least need a parenthetical reference to lend your assertion authority by demonstrating that experts agree with you.
In the 1950’s to the 1960’s, the mall was emerging
Reverse the order of this sentence to start with the mall, since it is the subject of the paragraph.
epitome of social interaction
Claims like this need attestation from a source. Should include a parenthetical reference.
The shopping mall is something that we are all familiar with.
Again, reframe to be about the zombie criticism: start with DOTD and then go into its connection to the mall as a constructed environment. And get your sources in here too. You should ALWAYS be talking about the scholarship, not the topic.
Dawn of the Dead
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Also, should include a parenthetical year reference.
It is in evaluating these sources and critiquing them that literature has begun to explain the dangers of consumerism. In doing so, consumerism has been broken into multiple parts, to fully analyze all aspects of consumerism.
You're not analyzing consumerism as such -- you are analyzing it in the context of DOTD. Reframe this to be about the criticism of the movie, e.g. "one major theme in zombie criticism is the idea of the zombie as allegorical consumer, ceaselessly consuming like the ideal subject of late capitalism. Nowhere is this allegory made more clear than in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Critics of the film have broken down its relation to consumerism into several distinct topics..."
Remember that this is about the CRITICISM of the film, not just the topic.
Agamben’s Overall Argument
Is it possible to remove this since it is redundant with the title?