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The laughing dead the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
| Other author | Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- |
| Other author | Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Playing with genre. "Oy, have you got the wrong vampire": dislocation, comic distancing, and political critique in Roman Polanski's The fearless vampire killers / Thomas Prasch -- Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II / Christina M. Knopf -- "The limeys are coming, Barbara, and they're laughing!": the art of the romeroesque in Shaun of the dead and Dead set / Steve Webley -- Undead in the city: The vampire's kiss (1988) and its kin / Gary D. Rhodes -- Beyond fear in The book of life: discussions on children, death, and Latinidad / Eric César Morales -- Horror, in theory. The humor of William Castle's gimmick films / Murray Leeder -- "We're not all dead yet": humor amid the horror in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein / Martin F. Norden -- Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948): laughing in the face of an uncertain future / Deb Carmichael -- Humor in vampire films: the vampire as joker / Mary Y. Hallab -- Queerness and the undead female monster / Lisa Cunningham -- Rules for surviving a horror comedy: satiric genre transformation from Scream to Zombieland / Chris Yogerst -- There goes the neighborhood. Better living through zombies: assessing the allegory of consumerism & empowerment in Andrew Currie's Fido / Michael C. Reiff -- Undead anarchy in Ghostbusters / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- The queer and the dead: transgressive sexuality in Shaun of the dead / Shelley S. Rees -- Undead in Suburbia: teaching children to love thy neighbor, fangs and all / Leila Estes and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- Some assembly required: the do-it-yourself Undead / Cynthia J. Miller. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Laughing dead Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442268326 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016004228 |
| ISBN | 9781442268333 (electronic) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |