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Zombie movies : the ultimate guide / Glenn Kay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1556527705
  • 9781556527708
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Contents:
Origins -- The 1930s: the zombie film's beginnings -- The 1940s: laughing at the zombies ... and an early end? -- The 1950s: the drive-in, the atom bomb, and the radioactive zombie -- The 1960s: The weird, wild psychedelic era and the reinvention of the zombie -- Know your monsters! -- The 1970s: Spanish zombies, satire, and blaxploitation -- Some of the weirdest/funniest/most disturbing things I've seen in zombie films -- The 1980s: Italy reigns and the horror boom explodes ... and fizzles -- Interviews : Antonella Fulci ; Greg Nicotero -- The 1990s: the end of the zombie - and the resurrection in video games and on DVD -- Interviews : Tom Savini ; Stuart Conran -- The new millennium: Japan takes center stage, and the big-budget zombie arises -- Interviews : Colin Geddes ; John Migliore ; Jennifer Baxter ; Adventures undercover as a zombie on Land of the dead! ; Interviews: Andrew Currie ; Gaslight Studios ; The highest-grossing zombie films of all time -- Hope for the future, or the beginning of the end ... again? -- The greatest zombie films ever made -- Appendix : Zombieless zombie movies.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 791.43675 K23 Available 33111005625583
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Zombie Movies is an essential purchase for all those who love (or fear) horror cinema's most popular and terrifying creation. This thorough and authoritative yet uproarious guide

• reviews and rates nearly 300 zombie films--from Bela Lugosi's White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) • traces the evolution of the zombie over the decades, from voodoo slave to brain-eating undead to raging infected • lays out what makes a zombie a zombie, as opposed to a ghost, ghoul, vampire, mummy, pod person, rabid sicko, or Frankenstein's monster • includes a detailed and chilling journal from the filming of Land of the Dead • lists the oddest and most gruesome things ever seen in undead cinema • covers not only mainstream American movies but also small independent productions, Spanish and Italian exploitation pictures, and bizarre offerings from Japan and Hong Kong • provides a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made • features in-depth interviews with actors, directors, makeup effects wizards, and other zombie experts For serious fans and casual moviegoers alike, Zombie Movies will provide plenty of informative and entertaining brain food.


"An A Cappella book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-334) and indexes.

Origins -- The 1930s: the zombie film's beginnings -- The 1940s: laughing at the zombies ... and an early end? -- The 1950s: the drive-in, the atom bomb, and the radioactive zombie -- The 1960s: The weird, wild psychedelic era and the reinvention of the zombie -- Know your monsters! -- The 1970s: Spanish zombies, satire, and blaxploitation -- Some of the weirdest/funniest/most disturbing things I've seen in zombie films -- The 1980s: Italy reigns and the horror boom explodes ... and fizzles -- Interviews : Antonella Fulci ; Greg Nicotero -- The 1990s: the end of the zombie - and the resurrection in video games and on DVD -- Interviews : Tom Savini ; Stuart Conran -- The new millennium: Japan takes center stage, and the big-budget zombie arises -- Interviews : Colin Geddes ; John Migliore ; Jennifer Baxter ; Adventures undercover as a zombie on Land of the dead! ; Interviews: Andrew Currie ; Gaslight Studios ; The highest-grossing zombie films of all time -- Hope for the future, or the beginning of the end ... again? -- The greatest zombie films ever made -- Appendix : Zombieless zombie movies.

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