Horrors of War

The Undead on the Battlefield
Herausgeber: Miller, Cynthia J.; Riper, A. Bowdoin Van

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9781442251113
• ISBN-10: 1442251115
• Artikelnr.: 42283033

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Soköowska-Pary¿ 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