Not of the Living Dead

<p> A killer monkey. Suburban witchcraft. Motorcycle jousting. A cockroach invasion. Despite this enticing list of other subjects George A. Romero is best known for the genre-defining 1968 film <I>Night of the Living Dead</I> and subsequent zombie films. The non-zombie films in his decades-long career have gotten varied degrees of critical examination but they remain underexamined compared to the <I>Dead</I> flicks.</p><p> This book focuses on Romero's other work highlighting lesser-known films such as <I>There's Always Vanilla</I> (1971) and <I>Bruiser</I> (2000) as well as more popular films such as <I>Martin</I> (1977) and <I>The Crazies</I> (1973). It examines how his body of work participates in social critique by delving into issues such as capitalism's pitfalls and excesses domestic and racial power imbalances and our patriarchal culture's expectations of masculinity femininity and sexuality.</p>