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Vampires and Zombies : Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations /
"The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both unde...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller
- Part 1: Migratory transformations. The smiling dead; or, on the empirical impossibility of Thai zombies / Katarzyna Ancuta
- "She loves the blood of the young": the bloodthirsty female as cultural mediator in Lafcadio Hearn's "The Story of Chūgōrō" / Sabine Metzger
- Octavia Butler's vampiric vision: fledgling as a transnational neo-slave narrative / Timothy M. Robinson
- Part 2: Non/normative sexualities. Appetite for disruption: the cinematic zombie and queer theory / Rasmus R. Simonsen
- Vampiros Mexicanos: nonnormative sexualities in contemporary vampire novels of Mexico / Danielle Borgia
- Hybridity sucks: European vampirism encounters Haitian voodoo in The White Witch of Rosehall / Monika Mueller
- Part 3: Cultural enxieties. Revamping Dracula on the Mexican silver screen: Fernando Mendez's El vampiro / Carmen Serrano
- The reanimation of yellow-peril anxieties in Max Brooks's World War Z / Timothy R. Fox
- Part 4: Circulating technologies. "Doctor! I'm losing blood!" "Nonsense! Your blood is right here": the vampirism of Carl Theodor Dreyer's film Vampyr / Johannes Weber
- Disruptive corpses: tales of the living dead in horror comics of the 1950s and beyond / Richard J. Hand
- Undead avatars: the zombie in horror video games / Ewan Kirkland.