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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Vampires and zombies
    sub title: transcultural migrations and transnational interpretations
  name:
    name part: Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mueller, Monika
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the zeitgeist. As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Of all monsters, vampires and zombies seem to be the trendiest--the most regularly incarnate of the undead and the monsters most frequently represented in the media and pop culture. Moreover, both figures have experienced radical reinterpretations. If in the past vampires were evil, blood-sucking exploiters and zombies were brainless victims, they now have metamorphosed into kinder and gentler blood-sucking vampires and crueler, more relentless, flesh-eating zombies. Although the portrayals of both vampires and zombies can be traced back to specific regions and predate mass media, the introduction of mass distribution through film and game technologies has significantly modified their depiction over time and in new environments. Among other topics, contributors discuss zombies in Thai films, vampire novels of Mexico, and undead avatars in horror videogames. This volume--with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds--explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures"--
  note: edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Vampires in mass media
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Folklore & Mythology
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS
    topic: Film & Video
    topic: History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: Vampires in mass media
  classification: P96.V35 V36 2016
  classification: 398/.45
  classification: SOC022000 SOC011000 PER004030
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vampires and zombies
    origin info:
      publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016
    identifier: (DLC) 2015025727
  identifier: 9781496804747
  identifier: 1496804740
  identifier: 9781496804754
  identifier: 2015020155
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150625
    record change date: 20160504142045.0
    record identifier: in00003764298
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng