The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead is the first in-depth study in English of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainstream in the horror genre. In placing Romero’s oeuvre in the context of literary naturalism, the book explores the relevance of the director’s films within American cultural traditions and thus explains the potency of such work beyond ‘splatter movie’ models. The author explores the roots of naturalism i...
قائمة المحتويات
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction
1. A Director and his Traditions
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. There’s Always Vanilla
4. Jack’s Wife
5. The Crazies
6. Martin
7....
عن المؤلف
Tony Williams is Professor and Area Head of Film Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has published widely in the areas of horror and American indepen...