Kevin J. Wetmore

Back from the Dead

Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films as Markers of Their Times

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Produktbeschreibung

Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark film Night of the Living Dead formed the paradigm of modern zombie cinema; often cited as a metaphor for America during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, the film used the tenets of the drive-in horror movie genre to engage the sociophobics of late-1960s culture. Subsequently Romero has created five more zombie films, and other directors, including Tom Savini and Zack Snyder, have remade Romero's movies. This survey of those remakes examines ways in which the sociocultural contexts of different time periods are reflected by changes to the narrative (and the zombies) of Romero's original versions.

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Produktdetails

• Contributions to Zombie Studies
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780786446421
• ISBN-10: 0786446420
• Artikelnr.: 33165700

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction: The Dead Are Rising     
I. Night
1. "We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to
solve anything":
Night of the Living Dead (1968)     
2. "I'm fighting; I'm not panicking":
Night of the Living Dead (1990)     
3. "This has got to be the strangest load you've ever hauled!":
30th Anniversary Special Edition (1998) and Children of the Living Dead
(2001)     
4. "Hey, are you, like, freaked out about zombie movies?":
Night of the Living Dead 3-D (2006)     
5. "Now you better watch this and try to understand what's going on":
Night of the Living Dead: Survivor's Cut (2005)
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (2009)
Night of the Living Dead: Origins (2011)     
INTERLUDE: LIVING DEAD, LIVE!
Night of the Living Dead on Stage and in Other Media     
II. Dawn
6. "We're blowing it ourselves":
Dawn of the Dead (1978)     
7. "Number One: Trust":
Dawn of the Dead (2004)     
INTERLUDE: "DID YOU KNOW THAT MOVIE WAS BASED ON A TRUE CASE?"
Return of the Living Dead (1985)     
III. Day
8. "From now on, everyone is under martial law!":
Day of the Dead (1985)     
9. "Somebody will come. They have to":
Day of the Dead (2008)     
IV. Back for the Dead
10. "Isn't that what we're doing? Pretending to be alive?":
Land, Diary, Surviving and the World of the Dead     
Conclusion     
Filmography     
Bibliography     
Index