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Summary: The Zombies are Loose!
Review: "Holy baloney, Batman! The Joker is Loose!" I don't know about the Joker, but all the Zombies are loose in this all-comprehensive memorial to 1932's cult classic "White Zombie". Everything you wanted to know(and a 120 things you could pass on..) about this minor gem are wrapped up in "White Zombie", written by Gary Don Rhodes. I found many an interesting passage, some remarkable photographs, and several pages that improved my sleeping problems in this weighty tome. All-in-all a must-have for the Bela Lugosi fan.
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Summary: The Zombies are Loose!
Review: "Holy baloney, Batman! The Joker is Loose!" I don't know about the Joker, but all the Zombies are loose in this all-comprehensive memorial to 1932's cult classic "White Zombie". Everything you wanted to know(and a 120 things you could pass on..) about this minor gem are wrapped up in "White Zombie", written by Gary Don Rhodes. I found many an interesting passage, some remarkable photographs, and several pages that improved my sleeping problems in this weighty tome. All-in-all a must-have for the Bela Lugosi fan.
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Summary: "There IS No Other Way"
Review: Gary Don Rhodes' take on "White Zombie" is keenly akin to those of Pauline Kael on "Citizen Kane" or George E. Turner on "King Kong": Each author's fascination with a focused topic yields a book of intense purpose and value beyond mere interest in one particular motion picture. Each of us has such a film in our picture-going experience, one overriding favorite that informs the way we regard all other movies, and such authors as Kael, Turner and Rhodes show us how a deeper understanding of that one film can enrich the viewing experience across-the-board. Rhodes' scholarship (on practically any topic) is meticulous to the point of obsession. In "W.Z.: Anatomy of a Horror Film" he puts this fact-finding mania to compelling use, not only sharing the raw materials he has unearthed but also interpreting them to demonstrate how and why "White Zombie" -- an "unlikely classic," as George Turner and I once termed the film in an article for "American Cinematographer" -- has remained relevant over the long stretch. Painstakingly researched and assembled, Rhodes' book was in preparation all during and beyond the mid-1990s period when George Turner (since deceased) and I were assembling our 20th anniversary edition of the more generalized book "Forgotten Horrors," on whose research Rhodes helped out considerably. George and I beefed up considerably our own book's chapter on "White Zombie," but we also left it to Gary Don Rhodes to get in the final say on that film's significance. Our trust has proved well placed, and the resulting volume is a fusion of style and substance worth cherishing.
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Summary: "There IS No Other Way"
Review: Gary Don Rhodes' take on "White Zombie" is keenly akin to those of Pauline Kael on "Citizen Kane" or George E. Turner on "King Kong": Each author's fascination with a focused topic yields a book of intense purpose and value beyond mere interest in one particular motion picture. Each of us has such a film in our picture-going experience, one overriding favorite that informs the way we regard all other movies, and such authors as Kael, Turner and Rhodes show us how a deeper understanding of that one film can enrich the viewing experience across-the-board. Rhodes' scholarship (on practically any topic) is meticulous to the point of obsession. In "W.Z.: Anatomy of a Horror Film" he puts this fact-finding mania to compelling use, not only sharing the raw materials he has unearthed but also interpreting them to demonstrate how and why "White Zombie" -- an "unlikely classic," as George Turner and I once termed the film in an article for "American Cinematographer" -- has remained relevant over the long stretch. Painstakingly researched and assembled, Rhodes' book was in preparation all during and beyond the mid-1990s period when George Turner (since deceased) and I were assembling our 20th anniversary edition of the more generalized book "Forgotten Horrors," on whose research Rhodes helped out considerably. George and I beefed up considerably our own book's chapter on "White Zombie," but we also left it to Gary Don Rhodes to get in the final say on that film's significance. Our trust has proved well placed, and the resulting volume is a fusion of style and substance worth cherishing.
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