Undead in the West II
eBook - ePub

Undead in the West II

They Just Keep Coming

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eBook - ePub

Undead in the West II

They Just Keep Coming

About this book

The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror film.

In this new volume, Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming, Miller and Van Riper expand their examination of undead Westerns to include not only film, but literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture (fan fiction, blogging, fan editing, and zombie walks). These essays run the gamut from comics and graphic novels such as American Vampire, Preacher, and Priest, and games like Darkwatch and Red Dead Redemption, to novels and short stories by celebrated writers including Robert E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, and Stephen King.

Featuring a foreword by renowned science fiction author William F. Nolan (Logan's Run) and an afterword by acclaimed game designer Paul O'Connor (Darkwatch), this collection will appeal to scholars of literature, gaming, and popular culture, as well as to fans of this unique hybrid.

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Information

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780810892651
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword: In the Beginning—Frederick Faust’s Western Fantasies
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Pioneers on a Wide-Open Frontier
  6. Chapter 1: Vaqueros and Vampires in the Pulps: Robert E. Howard and the Dawn of the Undead West
  7. Chapter 2: Weird Western Comic Books of the 1950s
  8. Chapter 3: Filling Up the West with Dead Folks: Joe R. Lansdale
  9. Chapter 4: On Death’s Horizon: Wandering Spirits and Otherworldly Landscapes in Western Art and Cinema
  10. Part II: Lawmen and Gunmen in the Badlands
  11. Chapter 5: Genre Exchange on the Supernatural Frontier in Stephen King’s The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets the Ravenous Other
  12. Chapter 6: Vampires and Vermin: The Ambivalence of Historical and Generic Revision of the West(ern) in Darkwatch
  13. Chapter 7: Finding a Noble Purpose in the Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development in Jonathan Maberry’s Rot and Ruin
  14. Chapter 8: Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric and Trauma within Red Dead Redemption / Undead Nightmare
  15. Chapter 9: Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet as Outlaw and American Vampire
  16. Part III: Men of God on Hallowed Ground
  17. Chapter 10: A Baptism of Blood: Priest and the Regeneration of Violence on Min-Woo Hyung’s Frontier
  18. Chapter 11: Ghosts of Texas: The Duke, the Vampire, and the Saint of Killers in Preacher
  19. Chapter 12: “And Hell Followed with Him”: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985)
  20. Chapter 13: Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo and the Undead Body in The Missing and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  21. Part IV: Communities at the Edge of the Unknown
  22. Chapter 14: Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman’s Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead
  23. Chapter 15: Genre Mashing in the Role-Playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, the Horror Steampunk Western
  24. Chapter 16: Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, and Indians in the American West
  25. Chapter 17: Undead and Online: Fan Communities and the Undead Western
  26. Afterword
  27. About the Contributors
  28. About the Editors