Undead in the West is a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre's inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, the volume is divided into three sections: "Reanimating Classic Western Tropes" examines traditional Western characters, symbolism, and plot devices and how they are given new life in undead Westerns; "The Moral Order Under Siege" explores the ways in which the undead confront classic…mehr
Undead in the West is a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre's inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, the volume is divided into three sections: "Reanimating Classic Western Tropes" examines traditional Western characters, symbolism, and plot devices and how they are given new life in undead Westerns; "The Moral Order Under Siege" explores the ways in which the undead confront classic values and morality tales embodied in Western films; and "And Hell Followed with Him" looks at justice, retribution, and retaliation at the hands of undead angels and avengers.
Cynthia J. Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, and she serves as President of the Literature/Film Association, as well as editorial advisory board member for The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture. She is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Scarecrow, 2012). A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. His publications include Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology (2007) and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (Scarecrow, 2011). Van Riper and Miller are coeditors of 1950's "Rocketman" TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (2012).
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Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper 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 About the Contributors About the Editors
Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper 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 About the Contributors About the Editors
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