Bøger af Kevin J. Wetmore

In this Devil's Advocates, horror scholar Kevin Wetmore examines what elements in the film are truly terrifying, how the filmmakers' claims of being based on a true story hold up against the actual history of the haunting and the Warrens, and the relationship between The Conjuring and the many films in its universe.

This volume explores the different ways in which Greek tragedy has been used by playwrights, directors and others to represent and define African American history and identity. Two models are offered for an Afro-Greek connection: Black Orpheus and Black Athena.

Focuses on the Star Wars saga. The first topic of this book is how the films use the language of colonialism to emphasize the idea of imperialism. Next the author looks at how Asian influences, including religious undertones from Taoism and Buddhism and the works of Kurosawa and other Asian filmmakers, provide a subtext for much of the action.

Kevin Wetmore's study focuses on African American adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. The author concentrates on the method of transculturation that the playwrights use and explains why African Americans have embraced the ancient Greek material.

Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark film Night of the Living Dead formed the paradigm of modern zombie cinema; often cited as a metaphor for America during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, the film used the tenets of the drive-in horror movie genre to engage the sociophobics of late-1960s culture. Subsequently Romero has created five more zombie films, and other directors, including Tom Savini and Zack Snyder, have remade Romero's movies. This survey of those remakes examines ways in which the sociocultural contexts of different time periods are reflected by changes to the narrative (and the zombies) of Romero's original versions.

Although the reimagined TV series Battlestar Galactica features religion and theology among its central concerns, the series does not simply use its myriad faiths as plot devices or background material. The series' narrative arc explores the meanings of salvation, prophecy, exile, apocalypse, resurrection, and messianism, and demonstrates the working of a divine will in a material world. This study offers a systematic theology for each of Battlestar Galactica's invented religions and surveys the echoes of American Christianity and theology in the series.