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Undead in the West
Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
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2012
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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled 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. 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 avenger.
The subjects explored here run the gamut from such B films as Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula to A-list features like From Dusk ‘til Dawn and Jonah Hex, as well as animated films (Rango) and television programs (The Walking Dead and Supernatural). Other films discussed include Sam Raimi’s Bubba Ho-Tep, John Carpenter’s Vampires, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, andSergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, Undead in the West will appeal to film scholars, especially those interested in hybrid genres, as well as fans of the Western and the supernatural in cinema.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8544-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8545-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
318
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. “So This Zombie Walks into a Bar . . .”: The Living, the Undead, and the Western Saloon No access
Chapter 2. “Hey Sammy, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore”: The Frontier Motif in Supernatural No access
Chapter 3. The Whore with the Vampire Heart: Frontier Romanticism in John Carpenter’s Vampires No access
Chapter 4. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula: The Old World Meets the Old West No access
Chapter 5. The West—Reanimated and Regenerated: Hollywood Horror and Western Iconography in Gore Verbinski’s Rango (2011) No access
Chapter 6. Frontier Values Meet Big-City Zombies: The Old West in AMC’s The Walking Dead No access
Chapter 7. Savage, Scoundrel, Seducer: The Moral Order under Siege in the From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy No access
Chapter 8. Blood on the Border: The Mexican Frontier in Vampires (1998) and Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) No access
Chapter 9. Colliding Modalities and Receding Frontier in George Romero’s Land of the Dead No access
Chapter 10. Zombie Nationalism: Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror as Immigration Satire No access
Chapter 11. Undead and Un-American: The Zombified Other in Weird Western Films No access
Chapter 12. Hungry Lands: Conquest, Cannibalism, and the Wendigo Spirit No access
Chapter 13. The Ghost from the Past: The Undead Avenger in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West No access
Chapter 14. Moving West and Beyond: Life in the Midst of Death in Purgatory No access
Chapter 15. “You Nasty Thing from Beyond the Dead”: Elvis and JFK versus The Mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep No access
Chapter 16. The Subversive Jonah Hex: Jimmy Hayward’s Revision and Reconfiguration of a Genre No access
Chapter 17. Queer Justice: Supernatural Strangers and Different Conceptions of Law and Punishment in Two Horror Westerns No access
A Selected Filmography No access Pages 283 - 288
Index No access Pages 289 - 310
About the Contributors No access Pages 311 - 316
About the Editors No access Pages 317 - 318
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