Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1848859244
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.
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television news reporter Dean Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) after he is assigned to meet the scientist in charge of the state power plant, Professor Hagenbach, at the airport and quiz him about the precise nature of the spill. However, the Hercules military transport that is bringing him arrives off course and Miller begins to sense that something is very wrong (unpredictability is thus enshrined into the narrative from the very beginning of the film). When it lands, the professor leaves the plane but