Screen | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: Adam Charles Hart watched his first George A. Romero film as many fans of a certain age did — on a random VHS tape. The author and film studies educator recalls how, when he was a teen, his mother brought home a copy of Dawn of the Dead knowing nothing about it.
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While I’ve vaguely heard of the name George A. Romero, I really didn’t know much, and was really interested by this article that had a lot of interesting information about Romero and the book that was being written for him. I always hear references about Pittsburgh having a big history with film and television, but I really don’t know many specifics about it, and it was fun to learn about the “zombie capital of the world” nickname. It is super interesting to read a bit about Romero’s life, and I found it kind of funny how it sounds like he was kind of a fun and entertaining dude, which is maybe not what you would expect from somebody who’s big thing is super gory zombie movies. I also thought that it was really interesting to read briefly about how he was involved in and inspired by other genres and artistic styles, and I’m really curious about examples of inspiration from those other genres represented in his films.
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