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Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Supernatural in literature.
- War films--History and criticism.
- War films.
- War in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life.Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and in other media depict angels, demons, and legions of the undead fighting against--or alongside--human soldiers.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Monstrous Enemies
- Chapter 1: "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks"
- Chapter 2: Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War
- Chapter 3: Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron
- Chapter 4: Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap!
- Part II: The Dead Don't Rest
- Chapter 5: The Wages of War
- Chapter 6: Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy
- Chapter 7: The Haunted Tank
- Chapter 8: (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch
- Chapter 9: The U.N.dead
- Part III: Making Monsters
- Chapter 10: Pall in the Family
- Chapter 11: Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction
- Chapter 12: Horror under the Radar
- Chapter 13: The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct
- Part IV: Legacies and Memories
- Chapter 14: "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land"
- Chapter 15: Public Memory and Supernatural Presence
- Chapter 16: War in The Twilight Zone
- Chapter 17: Specters of Media
- Chapter 18: R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest
- About the Editors and Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8183-070-0
- OCLC:
- 909904419
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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