Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie CinemaA full-on history of the zombie's on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Spanning seven decades of horror movie history with hundreds of stills, artwork, and an exhaustive filmography, this is the complete, long-awaited history of one of horror cinema's most enduring genres. Charting the entire ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from its origins in Haitian voodoo to its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie, are hundreds of zombie films from America, Europe and Asia, including Bela Lugosi B movies, Italian gore films, Nazi zombies, porno zombies, and blind monk zombies |
Contents
Dead Men Walking | 7 |
The Zombie Goes to Hollywood | 19 |
Down and Out on Poverty Row | 33 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth Kim Paffenroth Limited preview - 2006 |