Zombie Cinema

Author : Ian Olney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813579498

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Zombie Cinema by Ian Olney Pdf

It’s official: the zombie apocalypse is here. The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been as ubiquitous or as widely-embraced as they are today. Zombie Cinema is a lively and accessible introduction to this massively popular genre. Presenting a historical overview of zombie appearances in cinema and on television, Ian Olney also considers why, more than any other horror movie monster, zombies have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences. Surveying the landmarks of zombie film and TV, from White Zombie to The Walking Dead, the book also offers unique insight into why zombies have gone global, spreading well beyond the borders of American and European cinema to turn up in films from countries as far-flung as Cuba, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Nigeria. Both fun and thought-provoking, Zombie Cinema will give readers a new perspective on our ravenous hunger for the living dead.

Author : Glenn Kay
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781556527708

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Zombie Movies by Glenn Kay Pdf

Zombie Movies is an essential purchase for all those who love (or fear) horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creation. This thorough and authoritative yet uproarious guide • reviews and rates nearly 300 zombie films—from Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2008) • traces the evolution of the zombie over the decades, from voodoo slave to brain-eating undead to raging infected • lays out what makes a zombie a zombie, as opposed to a ghost, ghoul, vampire, mummy, pod person, rabid sicko, or Frankenstein’s monster • includes a detailed and chilling journal from the filming of Land of the Dead • lists the oddest and most gruesome things ever seen in undead cinema • covers not only mainstream American movies but also small independent productions, Spanish and Italian exploitation pictures, and bizarre offerings from Japan and Hong Kong • provides a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made • features in-depth interviews with actors, directors, makeup effects wizards, and other zombie experts For serious fans and casual moviegoers alike, Zombie Movies will provide plenty of informative and entertaining brain food.

Author : Ian Olney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813579481

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Zombie Cinema by Ian Olney Pdf

It’s official: the zombie apocalypse is here. The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been as ubiquitous or as widely-embraced as they are today. Zombie Cinema is a lively and accessible introduction to this massively popular genre. Presenting a historical overview of zombie appearances in cinema and on television, Ian Olney also considers why, more than any other horror movie monster, zombies have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences. Surveying the landmarks of zombie film and TV, from White Zombie to The Walking Dead, the book also offers unique insight into why zombies have gone global, spreading well beyond the borders of American and European cinema to turn up in films from countries as far-flung as Cuba, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Nigeria. Both fun and thought-provoking, Zombie Cinema will give readers a new perspective on our ravenous hunger for the living dead.

Author : John R. Ziegler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903416

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Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020 by John R. Ziegler Pdf

Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition examines selected films produced outside the United States in the second decade of the millennial zombie renaissance. Ziegler analyzes how the films adapt the zombie myth to localized concerns as it circulates in post-Great Recession transnational zombie cinema.

Author : Glenn Kay
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781569766835

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Zombie Movies by Glenn Kay Pdf

Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films-from 1932's White Zombie to George A. Romero's 2008 release Diary of the Dead-this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema's most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a zombie, go behind the scenes with a chilling production diary from Land of the Dead, peruse a bizarre list of the oddest things ever seen in undead cinema, and immerse themselves in a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made. Containing an illustrated zombie rating system, ranging from "Highly Recommended" to "Avoid at All Costs" and "So Bad It's Good," the book also features lengthy interviews with numerous talents from in front of and behind the camera.

Author : Peter Dendle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786492886

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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010 by Peter Dendle Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.

Author : Terry Rowan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312439474

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The Book of the Undead A Zombie Film Guide by Terry Rowan Pdf

Author : Ozzy Inguanzo
Publisher : Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Zombie films
ISBN : 0789325993

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Zombies on Film by Ozzy Inguanzo Pdf

Spanning nearly a century, this book tells the remarkable true story behind the zombie genre, from its cinematic inception and evolution to its ultimate rise to pop culture prominence.--dust jacket.

Author : Jeff Strand
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492628156

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The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever by Jeff Strand Pdf

After producing three horror movies that went mostly ignored on YouTube, Justin and his filmmaking buddies decide it's time they create something noteworthy, something epic. They're going to film the Greatest Zombie Movie Ever. They may not have money or a script, but they have passion. And, after a rash text message, they also have the beautiful Alicia Howtz-Justin's crush-as the lead. With only one month to complete their movie, a script that can't possibly get worse, and the hopes and dreams of Alicia on the line, Justin is feeling the pressure. Add to that a cast of uncooperative extras and incompetent production assistants, and Justin must face the sad, sad truth. He may actually be producing The Worst Zombie Movie Ever... "Fans of Strand's other novels of outrageous circumstance...will not be disappointed. A delightfully ludicrous read."-School Library Journal on I Have a Bad Feeling About This

Author : Kyle William Bishop
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455546

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American Zombie Gothic by Kyle William Bishop Pdf

Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the subgenre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as Victor Halperin's White Zombie, Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie, Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, and, of course, Romero's entire "Dead" series, it establishes the place of zombies in the Gothic tradition. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850759

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The Cinema of George A. Romero by Tony Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Dendle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786463671

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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle Pdf

Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680538

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Faith and the Zombie by Simon Bacon Pdf

Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns.This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.

Author : Gary D. Rhodes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786427628

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White Zombie by Gary D. Rhodes Pdf

The 1932 horror film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi has received controversial attention from film reviewers and scholars--but it is unarguably a cult classic worthy of study. This book analyzes the film text from nearly every possible viewpoint, using both academic and popular film theories. Also supplied is an extensive intellectual history of the predecessor works to White Zombie, as well as information on the significance it carried for subsequent books and films, its theatrical release around the country, its modern cultural influence, and the attempts to restore the film to its original state. Other noteworthy features of this work include an in-depth biography of White Zombie director Victor Halperin, the first complete study of his life and career, and 244 images and photographs.

Author : j. jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137116949

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Psychoanalyzing Cinema by j. jagodzinski Pdf

The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.