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Author:   David Roche ,  Adrienne Boutang ,  Claire Cornillon
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
Imprint:   University Press of Mississippi
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9781496860262

ISBN 10:   1496860268
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction —David Roche, Adrienne Boutang and Claire Cornillon Interview with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero —Julien Achemchame Part I. Genre, Culture, and Identity Chapter 1 The Specter of Failure: Personal and Professional Disillusionment in George A. Romero’s Counterculture Trilogy —David Church Chapter 2 From Pittsburgh to Pennsyltucky: Romero’s Pennsylvania Through the Lens of Critical Regionalism —Julie Assouly Chapter 3 Feminist Investments: Women, Empowerment, and Witchcraft in Jack’s Wife —Janice Loreck Chapter 4 Slapstick in George A. Romero’s Horror Comedies: The ""Crazy Body"" and Relentless Repetition —Arnaud Widendaële Part II. Visual and Aural Motifs Chapter 5 Seeing with Your Hands, Touching with Your Eyes: Visuality and Hapticity in the Films of George A. Romero —Sophie Lécole-Solnychkine Chapter 6 Nightmares of Confinement: An Analysis of a Key Motif of Romero’s Films —Hélène Frazik Chapter 7 ""I Am Dead"": Unnatural Editing in the Films of George A. Romero —Pierre Jailloux Chapter 8 ""There Is No Real Magic"": The Fantastic in George A. Romero’s Sound Worlds —Krista Mitchell Part III. Collaboration and Adaptation Chapter 9 Library Music and the Zombie Score: Soundtrack as Animator and Agitator in Dawn of the Dead (1978) —Kingsley Marshall Chapter 10 Makeup Artists of the Dead and the Creation of the Romerian Monster —Stella Louis Chapter 11 Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Playfulness in Creepshow —Nicolas Labarre Chapter 12 Audacious Spectacle or Postmodern Deconstruction? NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD—REMIX —Karen D. Thornton Filmography Bibliography Contributors Index

Reviews

""With Beyond Zombie Politics Roche, Boutang, and Cornillon have assembled a collection that completely revolutionizes how we can, and should, think about Romero as an artist, about film theory as a translator, and about cinema as a medium. This is an innovative, forward-thinking, and necessary intervention into writing about Romero and his work and marks the start of a new chapter in the further exploration of this unique artist and those he worked with."" - Wickham Clayton, author of SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing ""Friday the 13th""  ""This book stages new and necessary interventions in the study of popular cinema. Its primary strengths lie in the close attention it pays to often overlooked facets of Romero’s filmography, its novel use of theory, and its careful engagement with existing scholarship in both English and French. A well-organized and comprehensive study, Beyond Zombie Politics will have a significant impact on how scholars and fans think about Romero, his work, his contexts, and his intertexts."" - Miranda Corcoran, author of Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches

Author Information

David Roche is professor of film studies at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is author of Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, editor of Conversations with Russell Banks, and coeditor of Comics and Adaptation, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Adrienne Boutang is associate professor of film studies at University of Franche-Comté. Her research focuses on censorship and regulation of North American cinema in the contemporary era, transgressive representations, and adolescence in cinema. Claire Cornillon is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Nîmes. Her work focuses on science fiction literature, cinema, and television.

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