Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television
- ISBN-10
- 0857723502
- ISBN-13
- 9780857723505
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-12-02
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Authors
- Sharon Lockyer, Leon Hunt, Milly Williamson
Description
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in for fascism or ecological disaster, but is perhaps most frequently a harbinger and instrument of the apocalypse. Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2013-12-02
- 288 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
-
- 2013-12-02
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- I.B. Tauris
Similar books
-
Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
By Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van RiperPaul Varner, The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema (Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2008), 5. 17. Brent Strang, “'I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For': The Postmortem Western from Unforgiven to No Country for Old Men,” masters thesis, ...
-
Undead Apocalyse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
By Stacey AbbottWhen considered together they present a dystopian, sometimes apocalyptic, vision of twenty-first century existence.Key featuresRather than seeing them as separate or oppositional, this book explores the intersection and dialogue between the ...
-
Handling the Undead
By John Ajvide LindqvistIn his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires.
-
The Book of the Undead A Zombie Film Guide
By Terry Rowan... Milburn Stone, Andrew Tombes, Rose Hobart, Charles McGraw, Isabel La Mal, Hans Herbert Dir: James P. Hogan The science fiction and horror film has Dr. Alfred Morris (Zucco) who is curious about the effects of an ancient nerve gas, ...
-
Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming
By Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van RiperHe is the author of A History of Television's The Virginian 1962–1971 (2006); Pete Duel: A Biogra- phy (2007); Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns (2009);Jennifer Jones: The Life and Films (2011); Roy Huggins (2013); Jeffrey Hunter: The Film ...
-
Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
By Stacey AbbottExploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the 'reluctant' vampire, Stacey Abbott shows how both ...
-
Zombie Cinema
By Ian OlneySurveying the landmarks of zombie film and TV, from White Zombie to The Walking Dead, the book also offers unique insight into why zombies have gone global, spreading well beyond the borders of American and European cinema to turn up in ...
-
Zombies on Film: The Definitive Story of Undead Cinema
By Ozzy InguanzoSpanning nearly a century, this book tells the remarkable true story behind the zombie genre, from its cinematic inception and evolution to its ultimate rise to pop culture prominence.--dust jacket.
-
Digital Zombies, Undead Stories: Narrative Emergence and Videogames
By Lawrence May104 [were] zombies of a sort, shells of human beings'. The zombie, successor to nzambi and zombi, continued to meditate between two states of threat – the internal, in the possible loss of self and function, and the external, in the ...
-
The Subversive Zombie: Social Protest and Gender in Undead Cinema and Television
By Elizabeth AiossaEach anthology suggests its own hypotheses for the current explosion of zombie popularity, or what Kyle Bishop and ... of zombie narratives is tied to post–9/11 sociopolitical fears of corrupt government, consumerism “gone wild,” and ...