George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography

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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)

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.

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.

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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.

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-

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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, Coleman R. R. Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Morgan, Jack. The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Phillips, Kendall R. Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. Westport, C.T: Praeger Publishers, 2005.

Powell, Anna. Deleuze and Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Prince, Stephen. The Horror Film. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Russell, Jamie. Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema. Godalming, U.K: FAB, 2005.

Silver, Alain and James Ursini. The Horror Film Reader. New York: Limelight Editions, 2000.

Smith, Angela M. Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Spadoni, Robert. Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Tudor, Andrew. Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie. Oxford U.K: B. Blackwell, 1989.

Vieira, Mark A. Hollywood Horror: From Gothic to Cosmic. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.

Waller, Gregory A. American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

George A. Romero on Night of the Living Dead: Selected Bibliography

---. The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's Dracula to Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Weaver, Tom. I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2009.

Wetmore, Kevin J. Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films As Markers of Their Times. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2011.

Worland, Rick. The Horror Film: An Introduction. Malden, M.A: Blackwell Pub, 2007.

Zinoman, Jason. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror. New York, N.Y: Penguin Press, 2011.

Gender in Horror Film

Badley, Linda. Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Berenstein, Rhona J. Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Grant, Barry Keith. “Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film.” in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 200-210.

---. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Patterson, Natasha. “Cannibalizing Gender and Genre: A Feminist Re-Vision of George Romero’s Zombie Films.” in Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Shawn McIntosh and Marc Leverette (eds). Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2008. 103-118.

Case Study (George A. Romero)

Fallows, Tom and Curtis Owen. George A. Romero. Harpenden, U.K: Pocket Essentials, 2008.

Feyerabend, Florian. The Living Dead - Postmodern Icons of Horror: the Oeuvre of George A. Romero. Marburg: Tectum, 2011.

Gagne, Paul R. The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. Romero. New York: Dodd, Mead,

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1987.

Kane, Joe. Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever. New York: Citadel Press, 2010.

Paffenroth, Kim. Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth. Waco, T.X: Baylor University Press, 2006.

Phillips, Kendall R. Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.

Romero, George A. and Tony Williams. George A. Romero: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Waller, Gregory A. The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's Dracula to Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Walters, Jerad, and Marco Lanzagorta. Night of the Living Dead: Studies in the Horror Film. Lakewood, C.O: Centipede Press, 2008.

Wetmore, Kevin J. Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films As Markers of Their Times. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2011.

Williams, Tony. The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead. London: Wallflower, 2003.

Case Study (Night of the Living Dead and its Sequels)

Heffernan, Kevin. “Family Monsters and Urban Matinees: Continental Distributing and Night of the Living Dead.” in Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 202-220.

Iaccino, James F. “The ‘Living Dead’ Trilogy and Other Tales: Horrific Parables of Destruction.” in Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror: Jungian Archetypes in Horror Films. Westport, C.T: Praeger, 1994. 149-169.

Kehr, Dave. “Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)” in When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 106-111.

Lutz, John. “Zombies of the World, Unite: Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead.” in The

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Philosophy of Horror. Thomas R. Fahy (ed). Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 121- 136.

Phillips, Kendall R. “Night of the Living Dead (1968).” in Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. Westport, C.T: Praeger Publishers, 2005. 81-100.

Mitchell, Charles P. “Dawn of the Dead.” in A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 2001. 27-32.

Wetmore, Kevin J. Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films As Markers of Their Times. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2011.

Cult Cinema

Cline, John, and Robert G. Weiner. From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Hoberman, J. and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Midnight Movies. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Mathijas, Ernest and Xavier Mendik. BFI Screen Guides: 100 Cult Films. London, U.K: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Mathijs, Ernest and Xavier Mendik. The Cult Film Reader. Maidenhead, U.K: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, 2008.

Mathijs, Ernest and Jamie Sexton. Cult Cinema: An Introduction. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley- Blackwell, 2011.

Telotte, J.P. The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Apocalyptic Cinema

Martens, John W. The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film & Television. Winnipeg, M.B: J. Gordon Shillingford, 2003.

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Mitchell, Charles P. A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 2001.

---. “The Last Man on Earth (1964).” in A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 2001. 93-97.

Shapiro, Jerome F. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Sharrett, Christopher. Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film. Washington, D.C: Maisonneuve Press, 1993.

Thompson, Kirsten M. Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

African-American Representation in Hollywood Film during the Civil Rights Movement

Bernardi, Daniel. The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. London: Routledge, 2008.

Friedman, Jonathan C. Performing Difference: Representations of "the Other" in Film and Theater. Lanham, M.D: University Press of America, 2009.

Gabbard, Krin. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Graham, Allison. Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

Means, Coleman R. R. Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Richardson, Michael. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema. New York: Continuum, 2010.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Smith, Valerie (ed). Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

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Willis, Sharon. High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1997.

Special Effects Make-up and Prosthetics

Blake, Michael F. A Thousand Faces: Lon Chaney's Unique Artistry in Motion Pictures. Vestal, N.Y: Vestal Press, 1995.

Palmer, Randy. Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1997.

Savini, Tom. Grande Illusions: A Learn-by Example Guide to the Art and Technique of Special Make-Up Effects from the Films of Tom Savini. Pittsburgh, P.A: Imagine, 1983.

Savini, Tom. Grande Illusions, Book II. Charlotte, N.C: Morris Costumes, 1996.

Taylor, Al and Sue Roy. Making a Monster: The Creation of Screen Characters by the Great Makeup Artists. New York: Crown Publishers, 1980.

Timpone, Anthony. Men, Makeup, and Monsters: Hollywood's Masters of Illusion and FX. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996.

George A. Romero – TIFF Film Reference Library Film File Clippings

Alexander, Chris. “Romero takes back the night.” The Toronto Star (October 29, 2006): C4.

Allen, Tom. “Knight of the Living Dead.” The Village Voice (April 23, 1979): 44+.

Beifuss, John. “Romero’s Knightriders a salute to Independent Filmmaking.” The National Post (January 10, 2001).

Chang, Justin. “Land of the Dead – New zombie Zeitgeist.” Variety (June 27, 2005): 58+.

Cockrell, Eddie. “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead.” Variety (September 17-23, 2007).

Dargis, Manohla. “Filmmakers Who Become Their Own Zombie Movie.” The New York Times (February 15, 2008).

“Dawn of the Dead.” Variety (April 18, 1979).

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Feschuk, Scott. “Zombies make everyone happy.” The National Post (June 29, 2005): AL4.

Hoberman, J. “Night of the Living Dead at Twenty.” Premiere (December 1988): 142-143.

Howell, Peter. “The Beyond’s zombies have a long, gory family history.” The Toronto Star (June 17, 1998): E4.

---. “These Zombies Have Brains.” The Toronto Star (February 13, 2008): E1+.

Knelman, Martin. “Peculiar power in the Living Dead.” The Globe and Mail (November 30, 1971).

Knight, Chris. “Survival of the Dead: Eating human flesh still all the rage.” The Globe and Mail (August 20, 2010).

---. “No guts, no gory.” The National Post (October 26, 2012).

Lacey, Liam. “We’ve had night, day, and dawn. Time for the diary.” The Globe and Mail (February 15, 2008).

Lowry, Ed and Louis Black. “Cinema of Apocalypse.” Take One (May 1979): 17.

Nichols, Peter M. “Horror as an Everlasting Failure to Communicate.” The New York Times (July 12, 1998): 24.

Pelegrine, Lous. “Review of New Film.” Film and Television Daily (October 21, 1968).

Pevere, Geoff. “Land of the Dead: Zombies’ revenge.” The Toronto Star (June 24, 2005): E1+.

Onstad, Katrina. “Horror Auteur Is Unfinished With the Undead.” The New York Times (February 10, 2008): 13+.

Rodriguez, Rene. “King of the Zombies.” The Hamilton Spectator (May 6, 1993).

Scott, Jay. “Graphic Dawn of Dead, a gut-level social comment.” The Globe and Mail (June 29, 1979): 13.

Scott, Tony. “Romero: An Interview with the Director of Night of the Living Dead.” Cinefantastique 2.3 (1973): 8-15.

Zimmerman, Paul D. “We Killed ‘Em in Pittsburgh.” Newsweek (November 8, 1971): 118.