Screening the undead : vampires and zombies in film and television /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hunt, Leon, 1961- (Editor ), Lockyer, Sharon, 1974- (Editor ), Williamson, Milly (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Temas:
Vampire films > History and criticism.
Vampires on television.
Zombie films > History and criticism.
Zombie television programs > History and criticism.
Vampires à la télévision.
Films de zombies > Histoire et critique.
Émissions de zombies télévisées > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Vampire films
Vampires on television
Zombie films
Zombie television programs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 2 Rewriting the Living Dead
  • The Zombie in Popular Culture
  • 5. 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
  • pt. 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
  • 10.`Nollywood, Our Nollywood': Resisting the Vampires / Nicola Woodham
  • 11. 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.

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