Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
First edition
Ausgabe:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857735438
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1848859244
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1848859236
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9780857735430
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9781848859241
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9781848859234
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9780755698646
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9780857723505
Inhalt:
10 'Nollywood, Our Nollywood': Resisting the Vampires Nicola Woodham11 The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Romance-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Singing-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: Miike Takashi's The Happiness of the Katakuris as 'Cult' Hybrid Steve Rawle; 12 Amando de Ossario's 'Blind Dead' Quartet and the Cultural Politics of Spanish Horror Andy Willis; Bibliography; Notes.
Inhalt:
Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction: Sometimes They Come Back -- The Vampire and Zombie on Screen; Part 1 The Mark of the Vampire -- Race, Place, Gender and Identity in the Modern Vampire Film; 1 Manson, Drugs and Black Power: The Countercultural Vampire Ian Cooper; 2 Taking Back the Night: Dracula's Daughter in New York Stacey Abbott; 3 Northern Darkness: The Curious Case of the Swedish Vampire Peter Hutchings; 4 Let Them All In: The Evolution of the 'Sympathetic' Vampire Milly Williamson.
Inhalt:
Part 2 Rewriting the Living Dead -- The Zombie in Popular Culture5 Dead Metaphors/Undead Allegories Jeffrey Sconce; 6 Nightmare Cities: Italian Zombie Cinema and Environmental Discourses Russ Hunter; 7 Diaries of a Plague Year: Perspectives of Destruction in Contemporary Zombie Film Emma Dyson; 8 'Death is the New Pornography!': Gay Zombies, Homonormativity and Consuming Masculinity in Queer Horror Darren Elliott-Smith; Part 3 Hybrid Bloodlines; 9 From Mexico to Hollywood: Guillermo Del Toro's Treatment of the Undead and the Making of a New Cult Icon Costas Constandinides.
Inhalt:
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN 9781848859241
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Screening the undead ISBN 9781848859241
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755698646
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