Beyond the Living Dead

Bruce Peabody is a professor of government and politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Gloria Pastorino is a professor of Italian and French at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she also teaches English and world literature, drama, and film. She lives in New York, New York.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Are They Coming to Get Us?Gloria PastorinoSplat Panel Shocks: Romero, EC Horror and InnovationEmma AustinNo Grave Can Hold Them: Night of the Living Dead and the Rise and Rebirth of Zombies in ComicsChera KeeBlowing It All to Hell: Zombie Films as Allegorical WesternsGloria PastorinoDead Men Telling Tales: From Night of the Living Dead to Zone OneAngela TengaThe Night of Spaghetti Horror: The ­Flesh-Eating Frenzy of Italian Zombies and CannibalsFulvio Orsitto and Gloria PastorinoFrom Fiddler’s Green to Juiced Up Islands: The State of the State in Romero’s Zombie NarrativesBruce Peabody“They’re [Still] Coming to Get You”: White Liberals as the Zombie Horde in Jordan Peele’s Get OutCammie M. SubletteRousseau, Romero, and the “Sentiment of Existence”: The Search for Perfectibility in Dawn of the DeadBenjamin Isaak GrossConclusion: Do Not Go Gentle into That Bad Night: Humanism, Violence, and Plumbing the Romero LegacyBruce PeabodyFilmographyBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

“Clear, coherent, and containing the best examples of academic critical integrity, it promises to be an indispensable work that will provide a very serious foundation for taking the work of George A. Romero into this new challenging millennium.”—Tony Williams, author of The Cinema of George A. Romero and George A. Romero. Interviews; “The essays in this volume show us how Romero's prophetic legacy continues to reverberate through popular culture, helping us to think about the all too real horrors that we continue to face.”—Steven Shaviro, author of The Cinematic Body