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020 _a9781442268326 (cloth : alk. paper)
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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
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050 0 0 _aPN1995.9.H6
_bL375 2016
082 0 0 _a791.43/6164
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245 0 4 _aThe laughing dead :
_bthe horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland /
_cedited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
263 _a1604
264 1 _aLanham :
_bRowman & Littlefield,
_c2016.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPlaying with genre. "Oy, have you got the wrong vampire": dislocation, comic distancing, and political critique in Roman Polanski's The fearless vampire killers / Thomas Prasch -- Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II / Christina M. Knopf -- "The limeys are coming, Barbara, and they're laughing!": the art of the romeroesque in Shaun of the dead and Dead set / Steve Webley -- Undead in the city: The vampire's kiss (1988) and its kin / Gary D. Rhodes -- Beyond fear in The book of life: discussions on children, death, and Latinidad / Eric Ceƌsar Morales -- Horror, in theory. The humor of William Castle's gimmick films / Murray Leeder -- "We're not all dead yet": humor amid the horror in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein / Martin F. Norden -- Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948): laughing in the face of an uncertain future / Deb Carmichael -- Humor in vampire films: the vampire as joker / Mary Y. Hallab -- Queerness and the undead female monster / Lisa Cunningham -- Rules for surviving a horror comedy: satiric genre transformation from Scream to Zombieland / Chris Yogerst -- There goes the neighborhood. Better living through zombies: assessing the allegory of consumerism & empowerment in Andrew Currie's Fido / Michael C. Reiff -- Undead anarchy in Ghostbusters / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- The queer and the dead: transgressive sexuality in Shaun of the dead / Shelley S. Rees -- Undead in Suburbia: teaching children to love thy neighbor, fangs and all / Leila Estes and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- Some assembly required: the do-it-yourself Undead / Cynthia J. Miller.
650 0 _aHorror films
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aComedy films
_xHistory and criticism.
700 1 _aMiller, Cynthia J.,
_d1958-
700 1 _aVan Riper, A. Bowdoin,
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_tLaughing dead
_dLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
_z9781442268333
_w(DLC) 2016004228
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