the cinema of GEORGE A. ROMERO

DIRECTORS’ CUTS Other titles in the Directors’ Cuts series: the cinema of EMIR KUSTURICA: notes from the underground GORAN GOCIC the cinema of KEN LOACH: art in the service of the people JACOB LEIGH the cinema of WIM WENDERS: the celluloid highway ALEXANDER GRAF the cinema of KATHRYN BIGELOW: hollywood transgressor edited by DEBORAH JERMYN & SEAN REDMOND the cinema of ROBERT LEPAGE: the poetics of memory ALEKSANDAR DUNDJEROVIC the cinema of ANG LEE: the other side of the screen WHITNEY CROTHERS DILLEY Second Edition the cinema of TERRENCE MALICK: poetic visions of america edited by HANNAH PATTERSON the cinema of ANDRZEJ WAJDA: the art of irony and defiance edited by JOHN ORR & ELZBIETA OSTROWSKA the cinema of KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI: variations on destiny and chance MAREK HALTOF the cinema of DAVID LYNCH: american dreams, nightmare visions edited by ERICA SHEEN & ANNETTE DAVISON the cinema of NANNI MORETTI: dreams and diaries edited by EWA MAZIERSKA & LAURA RASCAROLI the cinema of MIKE LEIGH: a sense of the real GARRY WATSON the cinema of JOHN CARPENTER: the technique of terror edited by IAN CONRICH AND DAVID WOODS the cinema of ROMAN POLANSKI: dark spaces of the world edited by JOHN ORR & ELZBIETA OSTROWSKA the cinema of TODD HAYNES: all that heaven allows edited by JAMES MORRISON the cinema of STEVEN SPIELBERG: empire of light NIGEL MORRIS the cinema of WERNER HERZOG: aesthetic ecstasy and truth BRAD RAGER the cinema of GEORGE A. ROMERO knight of the living dead second edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11– The cinema of George A. Romero : knight of the living dead / Tony Williams.—Second edition. pages cm.—(Directors’ cuts) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-17354-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-17355-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-85075-9 (ebook) 1. Romero, George A.—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PN1998. 3.R644W55 2015 791.4302'33092—dc23 2014029738

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