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The cinema of George A. Romero : knight of the living dead

By Romero , Tony , George A.; Williams

Book information

Publisher
Wallflower Press;Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0231173547, 978-0-231-17354-4, 978-0-231-17355-1, 0231173555, 978-0-231-85075-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1511857 bytes)
Series
Directors' cuts
Edition
Second edition
Pages
309\321
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

In this comprehensive portrait of horror's definitive director, Tony Williams ties George A. Romero's films to the development of literary naturalism and American culture, expanding the artist's creative footprint beyond his mastery of the "splatter movie" genre. Williams locates Romero's influences in the work of Emile Zola, the Entertainment Comics of the 1950s, and the novels of Stephen King, revealing the interdisciplinary depth of his seminal films Night of the Living Dead (1968), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), and The Dark Half (1992). For this second edition, Williams reads Romero's Bruiser (2000) against his more recent Land of the Dead (2005) and takes a fresh look at Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009), two overlooked films that feature Romero's greatest achievements yet.

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