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Undead in the West : vampires, zombies, mummies, and ghosts on the cinematic frontier /

Title:
Undead in the West : vampires, zombies, mummies, and ghosts on the cinematic frontier /
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Part I: Reanimating Classic Western Tropes. 1. "So This Zombie Walks into a Bar . . .": The Living, the Undead, and the Western Saloon / Cynthia J. Miller -- 2. "Hey Sammy, We're Not in Kansas Anymore": The Frontier Motif in Supernatural / Michael J. Klein and Kristi L. Shackelford -- 3. The Whore with the Vampire Heart: Frontier Romanticism in John Carpenter's Vampires / Lindsay Krishna Coleman -- 4. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula: The Old World Meets the Old West / Rachel E. Page, Robert G. Weiner, and Cynthia J. Miller -- 5. The West--Reanimated and Regenerated: Hollywood Horror and Western Iconography in Gore Verbinski's Rango (2011) / Sue Matheson -- 6. Frontier Values Meet Big-City Zombies: The Old West in AMC's The Walking Dead / Shelley S. Rees -- Part II: The Moral Order under Siege. 7. Savage, Scoundrel, Seducer: The Moral Order under Siege in the From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- 8. Blood on the Border: The Mexican Frontier in Vampires (1998) and Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) / Thomas Prasch -- 9. Colliding Modalities and Receding Frontier in George Romero's Land of the Dead / Outi J. Hakola -- 10. Zombie Nationalism: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror as Immigration Satire / Christopher Gonzalez -- 11. Undead and Un-American: The Zombified Other in Weird Western Films / James Hewitson -- 12. Hungry Lands: Conquest, Cannibalism, and the Wendigo Spirit / Robert A. Saunders -- Part III: And Hell Followed with Him. 13. The Ghost from the Past: The Undead Avenger in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West / Matthias Stork -- 14. Moving West and Beyond: Life in the Midst of Death in Purgatory / Hugh H. Davis -- 15. "You Nasty Thing from Beyond the Dead": Elvis and JFK versus The Mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep / Hannah Thompson -- 16. The Subversive Jonah Hex: Jimmy Hayward's Revision and Reconfiguration of a Genre / Michael C. Reiff -- 17. Queer Justice: Supernatural Strangers and Different Conceptions of Law and Punishment in Two Horror Westerns / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- A selected filmography / Robert G. Weiner, Susan Hidalgo, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, and Cynthia J. Miller.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PN1995.9.W4 U53 2012 – Available