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245 04 $a The laughing dead : $b the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / $c edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
264  1 $a Lanham : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2016]
300    $a xxiii, 272 pages ; $c 24 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  $a 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.
650  0 $a Horror films $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Comedy films $x History and criticism.
650  7 $a Comedy films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869095
650  7 $a Horror films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960370
650  7 $a Filmkomödie. $0 (DE-588)4154364-6 $2 gnd
650  7 $a Horrorfilm. $0 (DE-588)4127415-5 $2 gnd
651  7 $a USA. $0 (DE-588)4078704-7 $2 gnd
655  7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1  $a Miller, Cynthia J., $d 1958- $e editor.
700 1  $a Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, $e editor.
776 08 $i Online version: $t Laughing dead. $d Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 $z 9781442268333 $w (DLC)  2016004228
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