/

Horrors of War The Undead on the Battlefield

Miller Cynthia J. Van Riper A. Bowdoin
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781442251113
Publisert
2015-05-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
612 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Redaktør
Miller Cynthia J.
Van Riper A. Bowdoin

Om bidragsyterne

Cynthia J. Miller is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary, From Big Screen to Small (2012), and co-editor of Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (2012) and Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming (2013), Steaming Into a Victorian Future (2012), and Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film (2013). She is also series editor for Rowman & Littlefield’s Film and History book series. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is author of A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011). He is also co-editor, with Cynthia J. Miller, of Undead in the West, and Undead in the West II.

Horrors of War The Undead on the Battlefield

Miller Cynthia J. Van Riper A. Bowdoin
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Miller Cynthia J. Van Riper A. Bowdoin
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Nettpris:
1.172,-
Levering 7-20 dager
Sjekk lagerstatus i butikk

Outside the study of visual culture and exploitation genres more generally, Cynthia Miller and her frequent comrade-in-arms, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, have carved a niche for themselves in Horror Studies, most recently with Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield. Their names are held highly among film circles in the U.S., and they belong to small but ever widening cadre of popular culturalists who are bringing prestige to the often overlooked among the arts. Horror Studies needs scholars like Miller and Van Riper.

- John Edgar Browning, editor of Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories,

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. Ghostly war ships and phantom aircraft carry on their never-to-be-completed missions, and the spirits—sometimes corpses—of dead soldiers return to confront the enemies who killed them, comrades who betrayed them, or leaders who sacrificed them. In Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled essays that explore the meaning and significance of these tales. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: How do supernatural stories engage with cultural attitudes toward war? In what ways do these stories reflect or challenge the popular memories of particular wars? How do they ask us to think again about battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice? Divided into four sections, chapters examine undead war stories in film (Carol for Another Christmas, The Devil’s Backbone), television (The Twilight Zone), literature (The Bloody Red Baron, Devils of D-Day), comics (Weird War Tales, The Haunted Tank), graphic novels (The War of the Trenches), and gaming (Call of Duty: World at War). Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, these essays address such themes as monstrous enemies and enemies made monstrous, legacies and memories of war, and the war dead who refuse to rest. Drawing together stories from across wars, branches of service, and generations of soldiers—and featuring more than fifty illustrations—Horrors of War will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, military history, and cultural history.
Les mer
This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.
Les mer
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Monstrous Enemies 1. “Blood-Thirsty Graybacks”: The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Robert A. Saunders 2. Cry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Vampires of War Cynthia J. Miller 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron A. Bowdoin Van Riper 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third Reich James J. Ward Part II: The Dead Don’t Rest 5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil’s Backbone Michael C. Reiff 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob’s Ladder Thomas Robert Argiro 7. The Haunted Tank Paul O’Connor 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż 9. The U.N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another Christmas Christina M. Knopf Part III: Making Monsters 10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam War Christopher D. Stone 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: The Case of F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep and Graham Masterton’s The Devils of D-Day Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of Below Christina V. Cedillo 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial Complex Steve Webley Part IV: Legacies and Memories 14. “Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land”: Cat Demons, Samurai, Victims’ Vengeance, and the Social Costs of War in Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko (1968) Thomas Prasch 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War Tales Terence Check 16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Haunted Visions of World War II Vincent Casaregola 17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi’s Graphic Reanimation of the War of the Trenches Katherine Kelp-Stebbins 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror Film Amanda Landa Index About the Editors and Contributors
Les mer

Relaterte produkter

Outside the study of visual culture and exploitation genres more generally, Cynthia Miller and her frequent comrade-in-arms, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, have carved a niche for themselves in Horror Studies, most recently with Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield. Their names are held highly among film circles in the U.S., and they belong to small but ever widening cadre of popular culturalists who are bringing prestige to the often overlooked among the arts. Horror Studies needs scholars like Miller and Van Riper.

- John Edgar Browning, editor of Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories,

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. Ghostly war ships and phantom aircraft carry on their never-to-be-completed missions, and the spirits—sometimes corpses—of dead soldiers return to confront the enemies who killed them, comrades who betrayed them, or leaders who sacrificed them. In Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled essays that explore the meaning and significance of these tales. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: How do supernatural stories engage with cultural attitudes toward war? In what ways do these stories reflect or challenge the popular memories of particular wars? How do they ask us to think again about battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice? Divided into four sections, chapters examine undead war stories in film (Carol for Another Christmas, The Devil’s Backbone), television (The Twilight Zone), literature (The Bloody Red Baron, Devils of D-Day), comics (Weird War Tales, The Haunted Tank), graphic novels (The War of the Trenches), and gaming (Call of Duty: World at War). Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, these essays address such themes as monstrous enemies and enemies made monstrous, legacies and memories of war, and the war dead who refuse to rest. Drawing together stories from across wars, branches of service, and generations of soldiers—and featuring more than fifty illustrations—Horrors of War will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, military history, and cultural history.
Les mer
This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.
Les mer
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Monstrous Enemies 1. “Blood-Thirsty Graybacks”: The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Robert A. Saunders 2. Cry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Vampires of War Cynthia J. Miller 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron A. Bowdoin Van Riper 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third Reich James J. Ward Part II: The Dead Don’t Rest 5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil’s Backbone Michael C. Reiff 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob’s Ladder Thomas Robert Argiro 7. The Haunted Tank Paul O’Connor 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż 9. The U.N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another Christmas Christina M. Knopf Part III: Making Monsters 10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam War Christopher D. Stone 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: The Case of F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep and Graham Masterton’s The Devils of D-Day Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of Below Christina V. Cedillo 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial Complex Steve Webley Part IV: Legacies and Memories 14. “Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land”: Cat Demons, Samurai, Victims’ Vengeance, and the Social Costs of War in Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko (1968) Thomas Prasch 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War Tales Terence Check 16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Haunted Visions of World War II Vincent Casaregola 17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi’s Graphic Reanimation of the War of the Trenches Katherine Kelp-Stebbins 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror Film Amanda Landa Index About the Editors and Contributors
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781442251113
Publisert
2015-05-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
612 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Redaktør
Miller Cynthia J.
Van Riper A. Bowdoin

Om bidragsyterne

Cynthia J. Miller is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary, From Big Screen to Small (2012), and co-editor of Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (2012) and Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming (2013), Steaming Into a Victorian Future (2012), and Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film (2013). She is also series editor for Rowman & Littlefield’s Film and History book series. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is author of A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011). He is also co-editor, with Cynthia J. Miller, of Undead in the West, and Undead in the West II.

Relaterte produkter