Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-
2. Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

Description

1. xxviii, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Essays on the hybrid Western/horror genre in film, literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture.

Alternative title

1. Undead in the West two
2. Undead in the West 2

Subject

1. Television programs > Social aspects > United States
2. Western television programs > United States
3. Horror television programs > United States
4. Horror films > United States
5. American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
6. Western films > United States
7. Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- > Undead in the West > II
8. Popular culture > United States

Contents

1. 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

1. MFL 14-1546

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Undead in the West II : they just keep coming / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Publisher

1. Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.
2. Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

LCCN

1. 2013021030

ISBN

1. 9780810892644 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0810892642 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780810892651 (ebook)
4. 0810892650 (ebook)

Research call number

1. MFL 14-1546