The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland /
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.