Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
"analyzes the zombie films of George Romero and their remakes by other directors in order to see how the shifting ecology of the undead over time resonates with the audience's fear of war, terrorism, social malaise, and spiritual apocalypse...Wetmore's close reading of these films weds the passion of a fanboy with the objectivity of an academic and results in a dissection that is both insightful and entertaining."--C&RL News; "intelligently written, thoroughly researched and immediately engaging...will interest and enthrall anyone from the casual observer to the hardcore zombie enthusiast"--Scarlet; "an engaged account"--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
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