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A killer monkey. Suburban witchcraft. Motorcycle jousting. A cockroach invasion. Despite this enticing list of other subjects, George A. Romero is best known for the genre-defining 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and subsequent zombie films. The non-zombie films in his decades-long career have gotten varied degrees of critical examination but they remain underexamined compared to the Dead flicks.
This book focuses on Romero's "other" work, highlighting lesser-known films such as There's Always Vanilla (1971) and Bruiser (2000), as well as more popular films such as Martin (1977) and The Crazies (1973). It examines how his body of work participates in social critique by delving into issues such as capitalism's pitfalls and excesses, domestic and racial power imbalances, and our patriarchal culture's expectations of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. "Isn't that cheating?": Extradiegetic Narrative Control in There's Always Vanilla
Leah Richards
2. "You've really got to get with it, Mrs. Mitchell": Freud, Friedan and Jack's Wife
Leah Richards
3. L'Univers Concentrationnaire of The Crazies
Noah Simon Jampol
4. Draining the Blood of the Patriarch: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in Martin
Cain Miller
5. The King Is Dead; Long Live the King: Capitalism and Nostalgia in Knightriders
Leah Richards
6. Creepshow and Patriarchal Horror(s)
John R. Ziegler
7. Race and Murder in Creepshow
John R. Ziegler
8. "The Monkey Ruled the Man": Phallocentrism, Able-Bodiedness and AIDS Anxieties in Monkey Shines
Cain Miller
9. Animating Politics, Reanimating Genres in "Cat from Hell" and "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar"
Noah Simon Jampol and John R. Ziegler
10. Queer Reproduction and the Family in The Dark Half
John R. Ziegler
11. "The New (White) Face of Terror": White Male Victimization in Bruiser
Cain Miller
Conclusion: From Amusement to Evil
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
