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George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography The Higher Learning staff curate digital resource packages to complement and offer further context to the topics and themes discussed during the various Higher Learning events held at TIFF Bell Lightbox. These filmographies, bibliographies, and additional resources include works directly related to guest speakers’ work and careers, and provide additional inspirations and topics to consider; these materials are meant to serve as a jumping-off point for further research. Please refer to the event video to see how topics and themes relate to the Higher Learning event. Independent Filmmaking (History and Theory) Biskind, Peter. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Ferncase, Richard K. Outsider Features: American Independent Films of the 1980s. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 1996. Horsley, Jake. Dogville Vs Hollywood: The War between Independent Film and Mainstream Movies. London: Marion Boyars, 2005. Levy, Emanuel. Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York: New York University Press, 1999. LoBrutto, Vincent. The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 2002. MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Murray, Rona. Studying American Independent Cinema. Leighton, U.K: Auteur, 2011. Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See. Chicago: A Cappella, 2000. Tzioumakis, Yannis. American Independent Cinema: An Introduction. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Independent Filmmaking (Practice) 1 George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography Garon, Jon M. The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009. Gilroy, Frank D. I Wake Up Screening!: Everything You Need to Know About Making Independent Films Including a Thousand Reasons Not to. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. Grove, Elliot. Raindance Producers' Lab: Lo-to-no Budget Filmmaking. Oxford, U.K: Focal Press, 2004. Lindenmuth, Kevin J. Making Movies on Your Own: Practical Talk from Independent Filmmakers. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1998. Merritt, Greg. Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Independent Filmmaking. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle Pub, 1998. Rosen, David and Peter Hamilton. Off-Hollywood: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Simonelli, Rocco and Roy Frumkes. Shoot Me: Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release. New York: Allworth Press, 2002. Stubbs, Liz, and Richard Rodriguez. Making Independent Films: Advice from the Filmmakers. New York: Allworth Press, 2000. Editing Dancyger, Ken. The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice. Amsterdam: Focal Press, 2007. Fairservice, Don. Film Editing: History, Theory, and Practice: Looking at the Invisible. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. McGrath, Declan. Editing & Post-Production. Boston: Focal Press, 2001. Murch, Walter. In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2001. Purcell, John. Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art. Oxford: Focal, 2007. Reisz, Karel and Gavin Millar. The Technique of Film Editing. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Focal, 2010. 2 George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography Film Marketing Bosko, Mark S. The Complete Independent Movie Marketing Handbook: Promote, Distribute & Sell Your Film or Video. Studio City, C.A: M. Wiese Productions, 2003. Durie, John, Annika Pham, and Neil Watson. Marketing and Selling Your Film Around the World: Guide for Independent Filmmakers. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2000. Finney, Angus. The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood. London: Routledge, 2010. Kerrigan, Finola. Film Marketing. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. Wyatt, Justin. Film Marketing: The Film Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. Film Canons Cherchi Usai, Paolo, David Francis, Alexander Horwath, and Michael Loebenstein. Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace. Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum, 2008. Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Wasson, Haidee. Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Popular Culture Studies Adorno, Theodor W. and J.M. Bernstein. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. London: Routledge, 2001. Browne, Ray B. and Marshall W. Fishwick. Symbiosis: Popular Culture and Other Fields. Bowling Green, O.H: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. Cartmell, Deborah. Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience. London: Pluto Press, 1997. Docker, John. Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Guins, Raiford and Omayra Z. Cruz. Popular Culture: A Reader. London: SAGE Publications, 2005. 3 George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography Harrington, C.L. and Denise D. Bielby. Popular Culture: Production and Consumption. Malden, M.A: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Jenkins, Henry. The Children's Culture Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Lipschutz, Ronnie D. Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. Marsden, Michael T., John G. Nachbar, and Sam L. Grogg. Movies As Artifacts: Cultural Criticism of Popular Film. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982. Romanowski, William D. Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture. Grand Rapids, M.C: Brazos Press, 2001. Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. Strinati, Dominic. An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2000. Witkin, Robert W. Adorno on Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2003. Zombies and Popular Culture Bishop, Kyle W. American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2010. Brooks, Max. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003. ---, and Ibraim Roberson. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. Drezner, Daniel W. Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2011. Flint, David. Zombie Holocaust: How the Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture. London: Plexus, 2008. Graves, Zachary. Zombies: The Complete Guide to the World of the Living Dead. New York: Chartwell Books, 2010. McIntosh, Shawn and Marc Leverette. Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2008. 4 George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography Horror Films (History and Theory) Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Blake, Linnie. The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. Carroll, Noël. The Philosophy of Horror, Or, Paradoxes of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 1990. Colavito, Jason. Knowing Fear: Science, Knowledge and the Development of the Horror Genre. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2008. Conrich, Ian. Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. London, U.K: I.B. Tauris, 2010. Curtis, James. James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1998. Dendle, Peter. The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2001. Dixon, Wheeler W. A History of Horror. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Fahy, Thomas R. The Philosophy of Horror. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Freeland, Cynthia A. The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. Boulder, C.O: Westview Press, 2000. Gelder, Ken. The Horror Reader. London, U.K: Routledge, 2002. Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Hallenbeck, Bruce G. Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2009. Hanich, Julian. Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. New York: Routledge, 2010. Hantke, Steffen. Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Heffernan, Kevin. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953- 5 George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography 1968. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Hendershot, Cynthia. I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination. Bowling Green, O.H: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001. Hoberman, J. and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Midnight Movies. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Iaccino, James F. Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror: Jungian Archetypes in Horror Films. Westport, C.T: Praeger, 1994. Magistrale, Tony. Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Means,
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