This companion to Undead in the West (Scarecrow 2012) explores the blending of the Western genre with zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts, and spirits in comics, graphic novels, literature, games, new media, fandom and material culture.
This companion to Undead in the West (Scarecrow 2012) explores the blending of the Western genre with zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts, and spirits in comics, graphic novels, literature, games, new media, fandom and material culture.
Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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Foreword: In the Beginning-Frederick Faust's Western Fantasies William F. Nolan Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Part I: Pioneers on a Wide-Open Frontier Chapter 1 Vaqueros and Vampires in the Pulps: Robert E. Howard and the Dawn of the Undead West Jeffrey Shanks and Mark Finn Chapter 2 Weird Western Comic Books of the 1950s Paul Green Chapter 3 Filling Up the West with Dead Folks: Joe R. Lansdale Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 4 On Death's Horizon: Wandering Spirits and Otherworldly Landscapes in Western Art and Cinema Courtney Fellion Part II: Lawmen and Gunmen in the Badlands Chapter 5 Genre Exchange on the Supernatural Frontier in Stephen King's The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets the Ravenous Other Adam S. Kozaczka Chapter 6 Vampires and Vermin: The Ambivalence of Historical and Generic Revision of the West(ern) in Darkwatch Christina V. Cedillo Chapter 7 Finding a Noble Purpose in the Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development in Jonathan Maberry's Rot and Ruin Julia Saric Chapter 8 Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric and Trauma within Red Dead Redemption / Undead Nightmare M. Melissa Elston Chapter 9 Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet as Outlaw and American Vampire Andrew John Sneddon and Aspasia Stephanou Part III: Men of God on Hallowed Ground Chapter 10 A Baptism of Blood: Priest and the Regeneration of Violence on Min-Woo Hyung's Frontier William Grady Chapter 11 Ghosts of Texas: The Duke, the Vampire, and the Saint of Killers in Preacher Jim Casey and Marc Petersen Chapter 12 "And Hell Followed with Him": Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) John Edgar Browning Chapter 13 Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo and the Undead Body in The Missing and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Jericho Williams Part IV: Communities at the Edge of the Unknown Chapter 14 Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman's Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead Jeffrey A. Sartain Chapter 15 Genre Mashing in the Role-Playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, the Horror Steampunk Western Rachel Mizsei Ward Chapter 16 Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, and Indians in the American West C. Richard King Chapter 17 Undead and Online: Fan Communities and the Undead Western Matthias Stork and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Afterword Paul O'Connor Index About the Contributors About the Editors
Foreword: In the Beginning-Frederick Faust's Western Fantasies William F. Nolan Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Part I: Pioneers on a Wide-Open Frontier Chapter 1 Vaqueros and Vampires in the Pulps: Robert E. Howard and the Dawn of the Undead West Jeffrey Shanks and Mark Finn Chapter 2 Weird Western Comic Books of the 1950s Paul Green Chapter 3 Filling Up the West with Dead Folks: Joe R. Lansdale Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 4 On Death's Horizon: Wandering Spirits and Otherworldly Landscapes in Western Art and Cinema Courtney Fellion Part II: Lawmen and Gunmen in the Badlands Chapter 5 Genre Exchange on the Supernatural Frontier in Stephen King's The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets the Ravenous Other Adam S. Kozaczka Chapter 6 Vampires and Vermin: The Ambivalence of Historical and Generic Revision of the West(ern) in Darkwatch Christina V. Cedillo Chapter 7 Finding a Noble Purpose in the Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development in Jonathan Maberry's Rot and Ruin Julia Saric Chapter 8 Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric and Trauma within Red Dead Redemption / Undead Nightmare M. Melissa Elston Chapter 9 Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet as Outlaw and American Vampire Andrew John Sneddon and Aspasia Stephanou Part III: Men of God on Hallowed Ground Chapter 10 A Baptism of Blood: Priest and the Regeneration of Violence on Min-Woo Hyung's Frontier William Grady Chapter 11 Ghosts of Texas: The Duke, the Vampire, and the Saint of Killers in Preacher Jim Casey and Marc Petersen Chapter 12 "And Hell Followed with Him": Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) John Edgar Browning Chapter 13 Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo and the Undead Body in The Missing and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Jericho Williams Part IV: Communities at the Edge of the Unknown Chapter 14 Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman's Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead Jeffrey A. Sartain Chapter 15 Genre Mashing in the Role-Playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, the Horror Steampunk Western Rachel Mizsei Ward Chapter 16 Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, and Indians in the American West C. Richard King Chapter 17 Undead and Online: Fan Communities and the Undead Western Matthias Stork and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Afterword Paul O'Connor Index About the Contributors About the Editors
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