LEADER 03892nam 2200577 450 001 9910798368203321 005 20230808193058.0 010 $a1-4422-6833-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000666830 035 $a(EBL)4503903 035 $a(OCoLC)936205696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001673053 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16471078 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001673053 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14891687 035 $a(PQKB)11161902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16303335 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14891688 035 $a(PQKB)21124183 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4503903 035 $a(DLC) 2016004228 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000666830 100 $a20160613h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe laughing dead $ethe horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland /$fedited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-6832-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aPlaying 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 Ce?sar 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. 330 $aFrom the terrified double-takes of Lou Costello and Bob Hope and the rapid-fire wisecracks of Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice to the ghoulish sight gags of Shaun of the Dead, horror and humor have been intertwined, on screens large and small, for decades. This edited collection of essays surveys the rich and varied history of the horror-comedy in film and on television, ranging from the 1940s to the twenty-first century. 606 $aHorror films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComedy films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHorror films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComedy films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/6164 702 $aMiller$b Cynthia J.$f1958- 702 $aVan Riper$b A. Bowdoin 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798368203321 996 $aThe laughing dead$93697641 997 $aUNINA