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 Info | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] |
| Description | xxii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015003812 |
| ISBN | 9781442251113 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |