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Dead reckoning : an analysis of George Romero's 'Living dead' series in relation to contemporary theories of film genre and representations of race, class, culture and violence.

dc.contributor.advisorArnott, Jill Margaret.
dc.contributor.authorHemmings, Jonathan Michael.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-19T07:32:03Z
dc.date.available2010-08-19T07:32:03Z
dc.date.created2008
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an in-depth analysis of George Romero's 'Living Dead' tetralogy of films, comprising Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn ofthe-Bead (1978), Day of the Dead(\985) and Land of the Dead (2005), examined through the lensf of contemporary film genre theory. The project focuses specifically on issues of the representation of race, class, culture and violence in the four films, and how these representations, along with the concomitant social critique evident in Romero's work, change in response to the upheavals and developments which have occurred in the American social, cultural and political climate over the past four decades. It also focuses on how Romero's films respond to changes in the horror genre, and how Romero both structures his films on the binary oppositions which are central to the genre and deconstructs these oppositions, and the implications that this deconstruction (most notably that of the figure of the zombie, which occupies a zone of constantly shifting liminality between the human and the monstrous) has in relation to Romero's socio-cultural and political commentary implicit in the films.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/302
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectHorror films--History and criticism.en_US
dc.subjectRomero, George A.--Criticism and interpretation.en_US
dc.subjectZombie films--History and criticism.en_US
dc.subjectMotion picture--Producers and directors--United States.en_US
dc.subjectTheses--English.en_US
dc.titleDead reckoning : an analysis of George Romero's 'Living dead' series in relation to contemporary theories of film genre and representations of race, class, culture and violence.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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