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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
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"A stroke of genius! This is the definitive love letter to the film, written with such meticulous passion and demented glee that you feel yourself standing on the set during the shoot."—Greg Nicotero A New York Times bestselling author dives into a horror movie classic to examine his favorite film's importance to our history, culture, and psychology, creating a perfect blend of research and memoir in the vein of Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation. Daniel Kraus first saw George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead when he was five years old. Through watching it approximately three hundred times since, Kraus discovered the many ways the film is tied to his childhood trauma and how its influence has carried into his adulthood. He couldn't help but Are there other admirers of the film out there who feel the same? Partially Devoured uses a frame-by-frame deep dive into Night of the Living Dead to produce a kaleidoscopic cultural investigation of the film's importance and to examine the author's early life of rural isolation and local violence. Careening from film analysis to rabbit-hole tangents, Partially Devoured will take readers from screaming laughter to the depths of grief, all while illustrating how a beloved genre film has woven itself into so many facets of our lives.
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"Kraus's close critical analysis of the film, however, is where the book really pops, as he makes a convincing argument for understanding the film as representative of the U.S."
"Kraus is a certified expert of the film (if not literally, he is the closest thing to), with an extensive knowledge of everything Night related ..."
"More than the intimate memoir or film study the title proclaims, this is storytelling at its finest."
"Kraus says that every time he made someone watch Night, it was an act of love; his book is another act of love, highly recommended for horror buffs."
"A sage take on a low-budget classic."
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