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the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland
Playing 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 César 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.
edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
Includes bibliographical references and index.