collage-like image with printed text at top including, "EVEN ZOMBIES NEED A LITTLE ROMANCE" in red; Starship Enterprise at center, with red and green elements that can be viewed with 3-D glasses; arm and hand in yellow in LRQ; part of a feathered Native American headdress, URC; head and shoulders of a cartoon woman wearing a low-cut yellow blouse at left below center; blue swirling forms in background

%C2%A9 Neal Ambrose-Smith

Zombies Need Romance, 2012

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Neal Ambrose-Smith’s mixed-media “mash-up” uses the familiar format of the movie poster to offer his own satirical spin on some of the more popular film genres of the day, from science fiction and Westerns to “rom-coms” and zombie films. Designed to be viewed through 3-D glasses, the illustrated poster advertises a fictional production, Even Zombies Need a Little Romance. Besides the famed starship Enterprise from the popular television and movie series, he includes a mid-20th-century “femme fatale” and a walking zombie, here cast as a faceless American Indian chief in feathered war bonnet. In Native American culture, the headdress is of great spiritual and political importance within the tribe, a sign of respect and honor earned through acts of bravery and selflessness. Seen here, it is little more than a movie prop, a reminder of how mainstream culture often demeans Native customs.

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Title
Zombies Need Romance
Artist Life
(Kootenai Salish), born 1966
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2015.48.2
Provenance
The artist, Albuquerque, N.M.; (Joe Zanatta Contemporary Art, Shawnee, Kansas); sold to MIA, 2015.
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collage-like image with printed text at top including, "EVEN ZOMBIES NEED A LITTLE ROMANCE" in red; Starship Enterprise at center, with red and green elements that can be viewed with 3-D glasses; arm and hand in yellow in LRQ; part of a feathered Native American headdress, URC; head and shoulders of a cartoon woman wearing a low-cut yellow blouse at left below center; blue swirling forms in background

© Neal Ambrose-Smith

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