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Undead in the West

Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810885455

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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. The volume is divided into three sections: “Reanimating Classic Western Tropes” examines traditional Western characters, symbolism, and plot devices and how they are given new life in undead Westerns; “The Moral Order Under Siege” explores the ways in which the undead confront classic values and morality tales embodied in Western films; and “And Hell Followed with Him” looks at justice, retribution, and retaliation at the hands of undead angels and avenger. The subjects explored here run the gamut from such B films as Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula to A-list features like From Dusk ‘til Dawn and Jonah Hex, as well as animated films (Rango) and television programs (The Walking Dead and Supernatural). Other films discussed include Sam Raimi’s Bubba Ho-Tep, John Carpenter’s Vampires, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, andSergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, Undead in the West will appeal to film scholars, especially those interested in hybrid genres, as well as fans of the Western and the supernatural in cinema.

Undead in the West

Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810885448

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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre's inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. The volume is divided into three sections: "Reanimating Classic Western Tropes" examines traditional Western characters, symbolism, and plot devices and how they are given new life in undead Westerns; "The Moral Order Under Siege" explores the ways in which the undead confront classic values and morality tales embodied in Western films; and "And Hell Followed with Him" looks at justice, retribution, and retaliation at the hands of undead angels and avenger. The subjects explored here run the gamut from such B films as Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula to A-list features like From Dusk 'til Dawn and Jonah Hex, as well as animated films (Rango) and television programs (The Walking Dead and Supernatural). Other films discussed include Sam Raimi's Bubba Ho-Tep, John Carpenter's Vampires, George Romero's Land of the Dead, and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, Undead in the West will appeal to film scholars, especially those interested in hybrid genres, as well as fans of the Western and the supernatural in cinema.

Undead in the West II

Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892651

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Undead in the West II by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

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.

Zombies in Western Culture

John Vervaeke,Christopher Mastropietro,Filip Miscevic

Author : John Vervaeke,Christopher Mastropietro,Filip Miscevic
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783743315

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Zombies in Western Culture by John Vervaeke,Christopher Mastropietro,Filip Miscevic Pdf

Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.

The Zombie Stories of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486798066

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The Zombie Stories of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

Six chilling stories offer compelling journeys into the land of the undead: "Herbert West—Reanimator," "In the Vault," "The Thing on the Doorstep," "Pickman's Model," "Cool Air," and "The Outsider."

Area 187 - Almost Hell

Eric R. Lowther

Author : Eric R. Lowther
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 1461159490

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Area 187 - Almost Hell by Eric R. Lowther Pdf

In the year 2007, an accident at a clandestine U.S. government facility in rural West Virginia releases several test subjects infected with a necrotic virus. Within weeks the U.S. military and the Department of Homeland Security are forced to declare the bulk of the state under quarantine. Seven years pass. Conspiracies continue to thrive outside the now-immense defensive wall and fortifications, and mercenaries known as "grave robbers" regularly slip in and out of the Area, stealing valuables and taking contracts to bring back specific items for well-paying customers. Our story follows Josephine Terrell, a television reporter and John Heath, once an Air Force search-and-rescue team leader that escaped the Area after five years of fruitless searching for his wife, as they risk their lives from both the dead and the living inside Area 187 to rescue a group of survivors.

Wanted

Angela Scott

Author : Angela Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0615619398

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Trace Monroe doesn't believe in luck. He never has. But when a fiery-headed cowgirl saunters through the saloon doors, wielding shotguns and a know-how for killing the living dead, he believes he just may be the luckiest man alive. Trace wants to join "Red's" posse, but she prefers to work alone-less messy that way. In order to become her traveling companion, Trace has to agree to her terms: no names, no questions, and if he gets bit, he can't beg for mercy when she severs his brain stem. He agrees, knowing only that Red is the sharpest shooter he's ever encountered. The fact she's stunning hasn't escaped his attention either. What he doesn't know, is that Red has a very good reason to be on top of her game. She not only has the answer for how they can all outlive the plague taking over the wild, wild west, she is the answer.

Zombology

Brian Anse Patrick

Author : Brian Anse Patrick
Publisher : Arktos
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781907166914

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In films, television, books, games, pornography, and now even in firearms and ammunition being sold to the American public, zombies are one of the mainstays of the popular culture of our time. Far from being only a passing curiosity, Brian Patrick dissects the zombie, showing it as the articulation of deep-seated fears within the Western psyche, a symbol in fact for the growing dehumanization that many of us observe, or perhaps sense without fully realizing it, in modern civilization. Patrick connects the zombie phenomenon to previous historical occurrences, drawing on both religion and psychology to show how such symbolic tropes that lodge in the collective unconscious of a culture are reflective of the psychological needs of large numbers of people in times of crisis. Patrick likewise shows how zombiedom has manifested particularly in American gun culture, and how this relates to the growth of a large-scale citizens' activist movement in favor of gun rights. Also included are practical tips on how to stay out of the clutches of zombiedom. Zombology is more than just a book about zombies, however. The zombie, for Patrick, is a peculiarly Western phenomenon, and as such, he examines how it can be seen as a manifestation of not-so-abstract forces battling for the future of our civilization: will collectivization or the individual, dream or reality win out? Patrick offers his own diagnosis. "At the very least the zombie adds some much-needed psychic contrast to the cold, to the grey and to the unending. It also provides a face, albeit necrotic, to the seemingly impersonal sociological forces that undermine the West; for in a near-perfect correspondence with the zombie, the West itself appears to be necrotic in a galloping way. Both need brains to ease the pain."-p. 48

Dead Reckoning

Rosemary Edghill,Mercedes Lackey

Author : Rosemary Edghill,Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599908373

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Jett is a girl passing as a boy, living as a cowboy in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. When the book opens, she's just rolled into a new town, where she stops by the saloon. Things are relatively calm, although she suspects there will be Trouble from at least one of the locals. Sure enough, Trouble starts to mosey over, when-- The saloon is invaded by zombies. Barely escaping with her life, Jett hightails it out of town and soon falls into the company of Honoria Gibbons, a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Together with White Fox, a young man they meet, they set out to discover what's caused the zombie uprising. Turns out these zombies aren't rising from the dead of their own accord... but who would want an undead army? And why?

The Post-2000 Film Western

M. Paryz,J. Leo

Author : M. Paryz,J. Leo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137531285

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The Post-2000 Film Western by M. Paryz,J. Leo Pdf

This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today.

Handling the Undead

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Author : John Ajvide Lindqvist
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429940697

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Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist Pdf

In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

Life After the Undead

Pembroke Sinclair

Author : Pembroke Sinclair
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533257922

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Life After the Undead by Pembroke Sinclair Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Krista must quickly figure out how she's going to survive in the zombie-destroyed world. The one advantage humans have is that the zombies hate humid environments, so they're migrating west to escape its deteriorating effects. The survivors plan to construct a wall at North Platte to keep the undead out, and Krista has come to Nebraska to start a new life. Zombies aren't the only creatures she has to be cautious of-the other survivors have a dark side. Krista must fight not only to live but also to defend everything she holds dear-her country, her freedom, and ultimately, those she loves. Join Krista in her quest to survive in this thrilling apocalyptic novel by Pembroke Sinclair.

Vlad the Undead

Hanna Lützen

Author : Hanna Lützen
Publisher : Groundwood Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0888993420

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Vlad the Undead by Hanna Lützen Pdf

YA. An unusual love story that weaves together history and horror into an imaginative contemporary vampire tale.

Speculative Wests

Michael Kyle Johnson

Author : Michael Kyle Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496234810

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Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a "changeling western," what others have called "weird westerns," and what Michael K. Johnson refers to as "speculative westerns"--that is, hybrid western forms created by merging the western with one or more speculative genres or subgenres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history. Speculative Wests investigates both speculative westerns and other speculative texts that feature western settings. Just as "western" refers both to a genre and a region, Johnson's narrative involves a study of both genre and place, a study of the "speculative Wests" that have begun to emerge in contemporary texts such as the zombie-threatened California of Justina Ireland's Deathless Divide (2020), the reimagined future Navajo nation of Rebecca Roanhorse's Sixth World series (2018-19), and the complex temporal and geographic borderlands of Alfredo Véa's time travel novel The Mexican Flyboy (2016). Focusing on literature, film, and television from 2016 to 2020, Speculative Wests creates new visions of the American West.

Wanted

Angela Scott

Author : Angela Scott
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798355410070

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Trace Monroe doesn't believe in luck. He never has. But when a fiery-headed cowgirl saunters through the saloon doors, wielding shotguns and a know-how for killing the living dead, he believes he just may be the luckiest man alive. WINNER: The Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book of 2012 - Young Adult WINNER: League of Utah Writers Golden Quill Award 2012 FINALIST: The 2012 USA Best Book Awards - Young Adult Trace wants to join Red's posse, but she prefers to work alone-less messy that way. In order to become her travelling companion, Trace has to agree to her terms: no names, no questions, and if he gets bit, he can't beg for mercy when she severs his brain stem. He agrees, knowing only that Red is the sharpest shooter he's ever encountered. The fact she's stunning hasn't escaped his attention either. What he doesn't know, is that Red has a very good reason to be on top of her game. She not only has the answer for how they can all outlive the plague taking over the wild, wild west, she IS the answer. Evolved Publishing presents the first book in the multiple award-winning Zombie West series. Check out the complete Zombie West series: Book 1: Wanted: Dead or Undead Book 2: Survivor Roundup Book 3: Dead Plains Special Omnibus Edition: The Zombie West Trilogy And don't forget Angela Scott's other great books: The Desert - Book 1: Desert Rice The Desert - Book 2: Desert Flower Anyone? Anyone Else? ZIA, The Teenage Zombie & The Undead Diaries

Undead In The West

Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Undead in the West II by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Zombies in Western Culture by John Vervaeke,Christopher Mastropietro,Filip Miscevic Pdf

The Zombie Stories of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

Area 187 - Almost Hell by Eric R. Lowther Pdf

Wanted by Angela Scott Pdf

Zombology by Brian Anse Patrick Pdf

Dead Reckoning by Rosemary Edghill,Mercedes Lackey Pdf

The Post-2000 Film Western by M. Paryz,J. Leo Pdf

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist Pdf

Life After the Undead by Pembroke Sinclair Pdf

Vlad the Undead by Hanna Lützen Pdf

Speculative Wests by Michael Kyle Johnson Pdf

Wanted by Angela Scott Pdf

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