Dawn of the Dead

by Jon Towlson

Overview

This Devil's Advocate explores the various ways in which director George A. Romero took his 1978 zombie masterpiece Dawn of the Dead into areas of extremity during its scripting, production and distribution; and the responses of industry, censorship bodies, reviewers and audiences of the time to the film's excesses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800856370
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Series:	Devils Advocates
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Jon Towlson is the author of The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (2016); Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Auteur's 'Constellations' series (2016); and the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award-nominated Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (2014).