Vampires and zombies: transcultural migrations and transnational interpretations
Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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University Press of Mississippi
2016
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4438672 Aggregator, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4438672 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller |
| Summary: | Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global Cover -- VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: MIGRATORY TRANSFORMATIONS -- THE SMILING DEAD -- OR, ON THE EMPIRICAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF THAI ZOMBIES -- "SHE LOVES THE BLOOD OF THE YOUNG" The Bloodthirsty Female as Cultural Mediator in Lafcadio Hearn's "The Story of Chūgōrō" -- OCTAVIA BUTLER'S VAMPIRIC VISION Fledgling as a Transnational Neo-Slave Narrative -- PART 2: NON/NORMATIVE SEXUALITIES -- APPETITE FOR DISRUPTION The Cinematic Zombie and Queer Theory VAMPIROS MEXICANOS Nonnormative Sexualities in Contemporary Vampire Novels of Mexico -- HYBRIDITY SUCKS European Vampirism Encounters Haitian Voodoo in The White Witch of Rosehall -- PART 3: CULTURAL ANXIETIES -- REVAMPING DRACULA ON THE MEXICAN SILVER SCREEN Fernando Méndez's El vampiro -- THE REANIMATION OF YELLOW-PERIL ANXIETIES IN MAX BROOKS'S WORLD WAR Z -- PART 4: CIRCULATING TECHNOLOGIES "DOCTOR! I'M LOSING BLOOD!" "NONSENSE! YOUR BLOOD IS RIGHT HERE" The Vampirism of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Film Vampyr -- DISRUPTIVE CORPSES Tales of the Living Dead in Horror Comics of the 1950s and Beyond -- UNDEAD AVATARS The Zombie in Horror Video Games -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781496804747 |