This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.
This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.
Cynthia J. Miller is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary, From Big Screen to Small (2012), and co-editor of Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (2012) and Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming (2013), Steaming Into a Victorian Future (2012), and Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film (2013). She is also series editor for Rowman & Littlefield's Film and History book series. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is author of A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011). He is also co-editor, with Cynthia J. Miller, of Undead in the West, and Undead in the West II.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Monstrous Enemies 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks": The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Robert A. Saunders 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War Cynthia J. Miller 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron A. Bowdoin Van Riper 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third Reich James J. Ward Part II: The Dead Don't Rest 5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil's Backbone Michael C. Reiff 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob's Ladder Thomas Robert Argiro 7. The Haunted Tank Paul O'Connor 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch Marzena Soköowska-Pary¿ 9. The U.N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another Christmas Christina M. Knopf Part III: Making Monsters 10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam War Christopher D. Stone 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: The Case of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep and Graham Masterton's The Devils of D-Day Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of Below Christina V. Cedillo 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial Complex Steve Webley Part IV: Legacies and Memories 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": Cat Demons, Samurai, Victims' Vengeance, and the Social Costs of War in Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko (1968) Thomas Prasch 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War Tales Terence Check 16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Haunted Visions of World War II Vincent Casaregola 17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi's Graphic Reanimation of the War of the Trenches Katherine Kelp-Stebbins 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror Film Amanda Landa Index About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Monstrous Enemies 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks": The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Robert A. Saunders 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War Cynthia J. Miller 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron A. Bowdoin Van Riper 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third Reich James J. Ward Part II: The Dead Don't Rest 5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil's Backbone Michael C. Reiff 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob's Ladder Thomas Robert Argiro 7. The Haunted Tank Paul O'Connor 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch Marzena Soköowska-Pary¿ 9. The U.N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another Christmas Christina M. Knopf Part III: Making Monsters 10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam War Christopher D. Stone 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: The Case of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep and Graham Masterton's The Devils of D-Day Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of Below Christina V. Cedillo 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial Complex Steve Webley Part IV: Legacies and Memories 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": Cat Demons, Samurai, Victims' Vengeance, and the Social Costs of War in Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko (1968) Thomas Prasch 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War Tales Terence Check 16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Haunted Visions of World War II Vincent Casaregola 17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi's Graphic Reanimation of the War of the Trenches Katherine Kelp-Stebbins 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror Film Amanda Landa Index About the Editors and Contributors
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