Parution – Beyond Zombie Politics (A. Boutang, C. Cornillon et D. Roche, dirs.)

Beyond Zombie Politics: The Art of George A. Romero’s Cinema
Adrienne Boutang , Claire Cornillon et David Roche (dirs)

University of Mississipi Press, “Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series”

2025

Abstract

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.

Contributions
Introduction  – David Roche, Adrienne Boutang and Claire Cornillon

Interview with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero  – Julien Achemchame

Part I. Genre, Culture, and Identity

Ch. 1 | “The Specter of Failure: Personal and Professional Disillusionment in George A. Romero’s Counterculture Trilogy ” —David Church

Ch. 2 | “From Pittsburgh to Pennsyltucky: Romero’s Pennsylvania Through the Lens of Critical Regionalism” — Julie Assouly

Ch. 3 | “Feminist Investments: Women, Empowerment, and Witchcraft in Jack’s Wife” — Janice Loreck

Ch. 4 | “Slapstick in George A. Romero’s Horror Comedies: The ‘Crazy Body’ and Relentless Repetition” — Arnaud Widendaële

Part II. Visual and Aural Motifs

Ch. 5 | “Seeing with Your Hands, Touching with Your Eyes: Visuality and Hapticity in the Films of George A. Romero”  — Sophie Lécole-Solnychkine

Ch. 6 | “Nightmares of Confinement: An Analysis of a Key Motif of Romero’s Films” — Hélène Frazik

Ch. 7 | “‘I Am Dead’: Unnatural Editing in the Films of George A. Romero” — Pierre Jailloux

Ch. 8 | “‘There Is No Real Magic’: The Fantastic in George A. Romero’s Sound Worlds”  — Krista Mitchell

Part III. Collaboration and Adaptation

Ch. 9 | “Library Music and the Zombie Score: Soundtrack as Animator and Agitator in Dawn of the Dead (1978)”  — Kingsley Marshall

Ch. 10 | “Makeup Artists of the Dead and the Creation of the Romerian Monster” — Stella Louis

Ch. 11 | “Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Playfulness in Creepshow”  —Nicolas Labarre

Ch.12 | “Audacious Spectacle or Postmodern Deconstruction? NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD—REMIX” — Karen D. Thornton


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Olivier Stucky (2 décembre 2025). Parution – Beyond Zombie Politics (A. Boutang, C. Cornillon et D. Roche, dirs.). LPCM. Consulté le 22 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/159b6


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