[Commlist] New book: Beyond Zombie Politics: The Art of George A. Romero's Cinema

New book
Boutang, Adrienne, Claire Cornillon and David Roche, ed. /Beyond Zombie 
Politics: The Art of George A. Romero's Cinema/. University Press of 
Mississippi, 2025.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Beyond-Zombie-Politics


  Description

Contributions by Julien Achemchame, Julie Assouly, David Church, Suzanne 
Desrocher-Romero, Hélène Frazik, Pierre Jailloux, Nicolas Labarre, 
Sophie Lécole-Solnychkine, Janice Loreck, Stella Louis, Kingsley 
Marshall, Krista Mitchell, Karen D. Thornton, and Arnaud Widendaële

Best known for /Night of the Living Dead/ (1968) and its sequels, George 
A. Romero (1940–2017) was a writer, editor, director, producer, and 
influential pioneer of the horror film genre. /Beyond Zombie Politics: 
The Art of George A. Romero’s Cinema/ gathers a group of contributors to 
explore Romero’s work beyond the /Living Dead /films with two parallel 
but complementary tendencies within twenty-first-century film studies: 
the renewed interest in horror aesthetics and the emphasis on filmmaking 
as a collaborative practice.

Opening with an original interview with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, who 
shares her views on the late director’s craft and influence, the 
anthology is divided into three sections that deal with genre, musical 
motifs, and the (re)creative process. Each chapter adopts fresh 
methodologies to focus on an area that has received little academic 
study. Contributors investigate the films’ relation to subgenres like 
the counterculture movie or the witchcraft film; their debt to slapstick 
comedy or the recurrence of specific visual motifs like hands; the 
editing and the handling of space; the use of makeup and music; the 
films’ relation to comics; and their adaptation into other media. 
Authored by established and up-and-coming experts of horror and the 
Fantastic, the chapters in /Beyond Zombie Politics/ aim to offer fresh 
insights into an important body of work, to contribute to current 
studies of the evolution of horror aesthetics, and to map the borders 
between exploitation, independent, and mainstream film.


  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’s] 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


*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




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