Miller, Cynthia J (Ed

Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield Miller, Cynthia J (Ed

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Cynthia J. Miller is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary, From Big Screen to Small (2012), and co-editor of Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (2012) and Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming (2013), Steaming Into a Victorian Future (2012), and Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film (2013). She is also series editor for Rowman & Littlefield s Film and History book series. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is author of A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011). He is also co-editor, with Cynthia J. Miller, of Undead in the West, and Undead in the West II."Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Monstrous Enemies 1. Blood-Thirsty Graybacks: The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Robert A. Saunders 2. Cry Havoc! and Let Slip the Vampires of War Cynthia J. Miller 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron A. Bowdoin Van Riper 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third Reich James J. Ward Part II: The Dead Don t Rest 5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil s Backbone Michael C. Reiff 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob s Ladder Thomas Robert Argiro 7. The Haunted Tank Paul O Connor 8. (Re) Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch Marzena Soko owska-Pary 9. The U. N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another Christmas Christina M. Knopf Part III: Making Monsters 10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam War Christopher D. Stone 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 Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of Below Christina V. Cedillo 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial Complex Steve Webley Part IV: Legacies and Memories 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) Thomas Prasch 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War Tales Terence Check 16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling s Haunted Visions of World War II Vincent Casaregola 17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi s Graphic Reanimation of the War of the Trenches Katherine Kelp-Stebbins 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror Film Amanda Landa Index About the Editors and Contributors"Publisher Marketing: Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and in other media depict angels, demons, and legions of the undead fighting against or alongside human soldiers. Ghostly war ships and phantom aircraft carry on their never-to-be-completed missions, and the spirits sometimes corpses of dead soldiers return to confront the enemies who killed them, comrades who betrayed them, or leaders who sacrificed them. In Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled essays that explore the meaning and significance of these tales. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: How do supernatural stories engage with cultural attitudes toward war? In what ways do these stories reflect or challenge the popular memories of particular wars? How do they ask us to think again about battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice? Divided into four sections, chapters examine undead war stories in film (Carol for Another Christmas, The Devil s Backbone), television (The Twilight Zone), literature (The Bloody Red Baron, Devils of D-Day), comics (Weird War Tales, The Haunted Tank), graphic novels (The War of the Trenches), and gaming (Call of Duty: World at War). Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, these essays address such themes as monstrous enemies and enemies made monstrous, legacies and memories of war, and the war dead who refuse to rest. Drawing together stories from across wars, branches of service, and generations of soldiers and featuring more than fifty illustrations Horrors of War will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, military history, and cultural history."

Contributor Bio:  Miller, Cynthia J Cynthia Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies and serves as President of the Literature/Film Association, as well as on the editorial advisory board for The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture. Contributor Bio:  Van Riper, A Bowdoin A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. His publications include Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology (2007) and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (Scarecrow, 2011).