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Author:   Leon Hunt (Brunel University, UK) ,  Sharon Lockyer ,  Milly Williamson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781848859241

ISBN 10:   1848859244
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 December 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer and Milly Williamson, 'Introduction' Part One: The Mark of the Vampire - Race, Place, Gender, Identity and the Modern Undead 2. Ian Cooper, 'Manson, Drugs and Black Power: The Counter-Cultural Vampire' 3. Stacey Abbott, 'Taking Back the Night: The Female Vampire in New York' 4. Peter Hutchings, 'Northern Darkness: The curious case of the Swedish vampire' 5. Milly Williamson, 'Let Them All In: The Evolution of the Sympathetic Vampire' Part Two: Re-Writing the Living Dead - The Zombie in Popular Culture 6. Jeffrey Sconce, 'Dead Metaphors/Undead Allegories' 7. Russ Hunter, 'Nightmare Cities: Italian zombie cinema and environmental discourses' 8. Emma Dyson, 'Diary of a Plague Year: Perspectives of Destruction in Contemporary Zombie Film' 9. Darren Elliott-Smith, ' Death is the New Pornography! : Gay Zombies, Homonormativity and Consuming Masculinity in Queer Horror' Part Three: Hybrid Bloodlines 10. Costas Constandinides, 'From Mexico to Hollywood: Guillermo Del Toro's Treatment of the Undead and the Making of a New Cult Icon' 11. Nicola Woodham, ' Nollywood, Our Nollywood : Resisting the Vampires' 12. Steve Rawle, 'The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: Miike Takashi's The Happiness of the Katakuris as 'Cult' Hybrid' 13. Andy Willis, 'Amando de Ossario's 'Blind Dead' Quartet and the Cultural Politics of Spanish Horror'

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Leon Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. His books include Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger (2003) and Cult British TV Comedy (2013). He is co-editor of East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (I.B.Tauris, 2008). Sharon Lockyer is a Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. She is editor of Reading Little Britain: Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television (I.B.Tauris 2010) and co-editor (with Michael Pickering) of Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2005, 2009). Milly Williamson is a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. She is the author of The Lure of the Vampire (2005) and Celebrity: The Making of Fame (forthcoming).

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