Screening the undead : vampires and zombies in film and television /: vampires and zombies in film and television. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer and Milly Williamson.
• Editors: Hunt, Leon, 1961-; Lockyer, Sharon, 1974-; Williamson, Milly
• Contents: 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. 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43675; Vampire films -- History and criticism; Vampires on television; Zombie films -- History and criticism; Zombie television programs -- History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Vampire films; Vampires on television; Zombie films; Zombie television programs; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857735430; 0857735438
• Related ISBNs: 9781848859241; 1848859244; 9781848859234; 1848859236
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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