Border visions [[electronic resource] ] : identity and diaspora in film / / edited by Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 275 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KazeckiJakub
RitzenhoffKaren A MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Boundaries in motion pictures
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8108-9051-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Utopias and dystopias : border visions and alternative (his/her) stories -- pt. 2. From the center to the margins : ideological dominance and liminal spaces -- pt. 3. Vanished borders : memory, nostalgia, and homesickness -- pt. 4. Growing up on the road : crossing borders and identity formation -- pt. 5. Narrative transgressions : crossing genres and border crossings. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463089303321 |
Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 | ||
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Border visions [[electronic resource] ] : identity and diaspora in film / / edited by Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 275 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KazeckiJakub
RitzenhoffKaren A MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Boundaries in motion pictures
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures |
ISBN | 0-8108-9051-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Utopias and dystopias : border visions and alternative (his/her) stories -- pt. 2. From the center to the margins : ideological dominance and liminal spaces -- pt. 3. Vanished borders : memory, nostalgia, and homesickness -- pt. 4. Growing up on the road : crossing borders and identity formation -- pt. 5. Narrative transgressions : crossing genres and border crossings. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786986803321 |
Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 | ||
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Border visions [[electronic resource] ] : identity and diaspora in film / / edited by Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 275 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KazeckiJakub
RitzenhoffKaren A MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Boundaries in motion pictures
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures |
ISBN | 0-8108-9051-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Utopias and dystopias : border visions and alternative (his/her) stories -- pt. 2. From the center to the margins : ideological dominance and liminal spaces -- pt. 3. Vanished borders : memory, nostalgia, and homesickness -- pt. 4. Growing up on the road : crossing borders and identity formation -- pt. 5. Narrative transgressions : crossing genres and border crossings. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826449603321 |
Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013 | ||
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Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6581 |
Soggetto topico |
War films - History and criticism
Horror films - History and criticism Supernatural in literature - History and criticism Horror tales - History and criticism War in literature |
ISBN |
1-4422-5111-5
1-4422-5112-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. MONSTROUS ENEMIES; CHAPTER 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks: "THE MONSTROUS OTHERING OF THE CONFEDERACY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER; CHAPTER 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War; CHAPTER 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron; CHAPTER 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazisunder the Polar Ice Cap!: AND OTHER RECENT EPISODES IN THE STRANGE CINEMATIC AFTERLIFE OF THE THIRD REICH; Part II. THE DEAD DON'T REST; CHAPTER 5. The Wages of War: SPECTRAL CHILDREN IN THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
CHAPTER 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: THE HAUNTED SOLDIER IN JACOB'S LADDERCHAPTER 7. The Haunted Tank; CHAPTER 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch; CHAPTER 9. The U.N.dead: COLD WAR GHOSTS IN CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS; Part III. MAKING MONSTERS; CHAPTER 10. Pall in the Family: DEATHDREAM, HOUSE, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; CHAPTER 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: THE CASE OF F. PAUL WILSON'S THE KEEP AND GRAHAM MASTERTON'S THE DEVILS OF D-DAY; CHAPTER 12. Horror under the Radar: MEMORY, REVELATION, AND THE GHOSTS OF BELOW CHAPTER 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: THE GAMIFICATION OF WAR AND THE REALITY OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXPart IV. LEGACIES AND MEMORIES; CHAPTER 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": CAT DEMONS, SAMURAI, VICTIMS' VENGEANCE, AND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF WAR IN KANETO SHINDO'S KURONEKO (1968); CHAPTER 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: THE MYSTERY AND MADNESS OF WEIRD WAR TALES; CHAPTER 16. War in The Twilight Zone: ROD SERLING'S HAUNTED VISIONS OF WORLD WAR II CHAPTER 17. Specters of Media: JACQUES TARDI'S GRAPHIC REANIMATION OF THE WAR OF THE TRENCHESCHAPTER 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: GENERIC COMPLEXITY AND THE GHOST IN THE WAR/HORROR FILM; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788284103321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6581 |
Soggetto topico |
War films - History and criticism
Horror films - History and criticism Supernatural in literature - History and criticism Horror tales - History and criticism War in literature |
ISBN |
1-4422-5111-5
1-4422-5112-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. MONSTROUS ENEMIES; CHAPTER 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks: "THE MONSTROUS OTHERING OF THE CONFEDERACY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER; CHAPTER 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War; CHAPTER 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron; CHAPTER 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazisunder the Polar Ice Cap!: AND OTHER RECENT EPISODES IN THE STRANGE CINEMATIC AFTERLIFE OF THE THIRD REICH; Part II. THE DEAD DON'T REST; CHAPTER 5. The Wages of War: SPECTRAL CHILDREN IN THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
CHAPTER 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: THE HAUNTED SOLDIER IN JACOB'S LADDERCHAPTER 7. The Haunted Tank; CHAPTER 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch; CHAPTER 9. The U.N.dead: COLD WAR GHOSTS IN CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS; Part III. MAKING MONSTERS; CHAPTER 10. Pall in the Family: DEATHDREAM, HOUSE, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; CHAPTER 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: THE CASE OF F. PAUL WILSON'S THE KEEP AND GRAHAM MASTERTON'S THE DEVILS OF D-DAY; CHAPTER 12. Horror under the Radar: MEMORY, REVELATION, AND THE GHOSTS OF BELOW CHAPTER 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: THE GAMIFICATION OF WAR AND THE REALITY OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXPart IV. LEGACIES AND MEMORIES; CHAPTER 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": CAT DEMONS, SAMURAI, VICTIMS' VENGEANCE, AND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF WAR IN KANETO SHINDO'S KURONEKO (1968); CHAPTER 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: THE MYSTERY AND MADNESS OF WEIRD WAR TALES; CHAPTER 16. War in The Twilight Zone: ROD SERLING'S HAUNTED VISIONS OF WORLD WAR II CHAPTER 17. Specters of Media: JACQUES TARDI'S GRAPHIC REANIMATION OF THE WAR OF THE TRENCHESCHAPTER 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: GENERIC COMPLEXITY AND THE GHOST IN THE WAR/HORROR FILM; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816149003321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Comedy films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-6833-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798368203321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
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The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Comedy films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-6833-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828366203321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
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Steaming into a Victorian future [[electronic resource] ] : a steampunk anthology / / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8766 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaddeoJulie Anne
MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Steampunk fiction - History and criticism
Steampunk culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-61796-X
0-8108-8587-5 9786613930415 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; P A R T I. REIMAGINING CHARACTERS/RECONFIGURING RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel; Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest; Chapter 3. Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity; Chapter 4. Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica
Chapter 5. "Anything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocle": Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental's The Indifference EngineP A R T I I. REFURBISHING TIME AND PLACE; Chapter 6. "In Sum, Evil Has Prevailed": The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic Marauder; Chapter 7. "Fulminations and Fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema; Chapter 8. Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers; Chapter 9. Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk Chapter 10. Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk SubcultureP A R T I I I. RETROFITTING THINGS; Chapter 11. "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory": Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future; Chapter 12. Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society; Chapter 13. Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen; Chapter 14. Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday; Afterword: Steampunk: Looking at the Evidence; Index About the Editors,Contributors, and Artists |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464228203321 |
Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 | ||
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Steaming into a Victorian future [[electronic resource] ] : a steampunk anthology / / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8766 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaddeoJulie Anne
MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Steampunk fiction - History and criticism
Steampunk culture |
ISBN |
1-283-61796-X
0-8108-8587-5 9786613930415 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; P A R T I. REIMAGINING CHARACTERS/RECONFIGURING RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel; Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest; Chapter 3. Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity; Chapter 4. Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica
Chapter 5. "Anything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocle": Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental's The Indifference EngineP A R T I I. REFURBISHING TIME AND PLACE; Chapter 6. "In Sum, Evil Has Prevailed": The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic Marauder; Chapter 7. "Fulminations and Fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema; Chapter 8. Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers; Chapter 9. Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk Chapter 10. Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk SubcultureP A R T I I I. RETROFITTING THINGS; Chapter 11. "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory": Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future; Chapter 12. Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society; Chapter 13. Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen; Chapter 14. Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday; Afterword: Steampunk: Looking at the Evidence; Index About the Editors,Contributors, and Artists |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787717103321 |
Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 | ||
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Steaming into a Victorian future [[electronic resource] ] : a steampunk anthology / / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8766 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaddeoJulie Anne
MillerCynthia J. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Steampunk fiction - History and criticism
Steampunk culture |
ISBN |
1-283-61796-X
0-8108-8587-5 9786613930415 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; P A R T I. REIMAGINING CHARACTERS/RECONFIGURING RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel; Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest; Chapter 3. Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity; Chapter 4. Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica
Chapter 5. "Anything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocle": Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental's The Indifference EngineP A R T I I. REFURBISHING TIME AND PLACE; Chapter 6. "In Sum, Evil Has Prevailed": The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic Marauder; Chapter 7. "Fulminations and Fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema; Chapter 8. Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers; Chapter 9. Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk Chapter 10. Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk SubcultureP A R T I I I. RETROFITTING THINGS; Chapter 11. "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory": Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future; Chapter 12. Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society; Chapter 13. Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen; Chapter 14. Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday; Afterword: Steampunk: Looking at the Evidence; Index About the Editors,Contributors, and Artists |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813566303321 |
Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013 | ||
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