Night of the Living Dead 2

The opening and the last part of Richard Dyer’s “White,” which you read for today, suggests that Night of the Living Dead draws attention not just to Ben’s blackness but to the whiteness of all the characters around him.  The movie does this, in Dyer’s thinking, even if the characters themselves never mention race. Pick a scene (other than the shooting at the end) where you see the movie putting forth an idea of whiteness and blackness that’s particularly striking.  

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