Undead in the West II : they just keep coming
- Title
- Undead in the West II : they just keep coming / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
- Published by
- Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
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- Description
- xxviii, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Essays on the hybrid Western/horror genre in film, literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture.
- Alternative title
- Undead in the West two
- Undead in the West 2
- Subject
- Television programs > Social aspects > United States
- Western television programs > United States
- Horror television programs > United States
- Horror films > United States
- American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
- Western films > United States
- Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- > Undead in the West > II
- Popular culture > United States
- Contents
- Foreword: In the beginning--Frederick Faust's Western fantasies / William F. Nolan -- Vaqueros and vampires in the pulps: Robert E. Howard and the dawn of the undead West / Jeffrey Shanks and Mark Finn -- Weird Western comic books of the 1950s / Paul Green -- Filling up the West with dead folks: Joe R. Landsale / Cynthia J. Miller -- On death's horizon: wandering spirits and otherworldly landscapes in Western art and cinema / Courtney Fellion -- Genre exchange on the supernatural in Stephen King's The gunslinger: the gunfighter archetype meets the ravenous other / Adam S. Kozaczka -- Vampires and vermin: the ambivalence of historical and generic revision of the West(ern) in Darkwatch / Christina V. Cedillo -- Finding a noble purpose in the postapocalyptic zombie West: identity development in Jonathan Maberry's Rot and ruin / Julia Saric -- Allegorical confrontation meets gaming system: rhetoric and trauma within Red dead redemption/Undead nightmare / M. Melissa Elston -- Go west, young fang! Skinner Sweet as outlaw and American vampire / Andrew John Sneddon and Aspasia Stephanou -- A baptism of blood: Priest and the regeneration of violence on Min-Woo Hyung's frontier / William Grady -- Ghosts of Texas: the duke, the vampire, and the saint of killers in Preacher / Jim Casey and Marc Petersen -- "And Hell followed with him": Gothic economics in Clint Eastwood's Pale rider (1985) / John Edgar Browning -- Scratching open old wounds: the supernatural Brujo and the undead body in The missing and The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Jericho Williams -- Days gone bye: Robert Kirkman's reenvisioned Western The walking dead / Jeffrey A. Sartain -- Genre mashing in the role-playing game Deadlands: the weird west, the horror steampunk Western / Rachel Mizsei Ward -- Unsettled: ghosts, zombies, and Indians in the American West / C. Richard King -- Undead and online: fan communities and the undead Western / Matthias Stork and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
- Call number
- MFL 14-1546
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title
- Undead in the West II : they just keep coming / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
- Publisher
- Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added author
- Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.
- Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.
- LCCN
- 2013021030
- ISBN
- 9780810892644 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810892642 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780810892651 (ebook)
- 0810892650 (ebook)
- Research call number
- MFL 14-1546