Horrors of war the undead on the battlefield / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Other author Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-
Other author Van Riper, A. Bowdoin.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Descriptionxxii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Introduction / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Monstrous enemies. Blood-thirsty graybacks: the monstrous othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter / Robert A. Saunders -- Cry "havoc!" and let slip the vampires of war / Cynthia J. Miller -- Vampire pilots and industrialized war in the bloody red baron / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- 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 -- The dead don't rest. The wages of war: spectral children in The devil's backbone / Michael C. Reiff -- Traversing the afterlife fantasy: the haunted soldier in Jacob's ladder / Thomas Robert Argiro -- The haunted tank / Paul O'Connor -- (Re)remembering the Great War in Deathwatch - Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż -- The U.n.dead: cold war ghosts in Carol for another Christmas / Christina M. Knopf -- Making monsters. Pall in the family: deathdream, house, and the Vietnam War / Christopher D. Stone -- 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 Pagnoni Berns -- Horror under the radar: memory, revelation, and the ghosts of below / Christina V. Cedillo -- The supernatural, Nazi zombies & the play instinct: the gamification of war and the reality of the military industrial complex / Steve Webley -- Legacies and memories. "Strange things happen in a war-torn land": cat demons, samurai, victims' vengeance, and the social costs of war in Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko / Thomas Prasch -- Public memory and supernatural presence: the mystery and madness of weird war tales / Terence Check -- War in the Twilight zone: Rod Serling's haunted visions of World War II / Vincent Casaregola -- Specters of media: Jacques Tardi's graphic reanimation of the war of the trenches / Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- R-point as post-colonial Palimpsest: generic complexity and the ghost in the war/horror film / Amanda Landa.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015003812
ISBN9781442251113 (hardback : alk. paper)

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