Horrors of War (eBook)

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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Monstrous Enemies1. “Blood-Thirsty Graybacks”: The Monstrous Othering of the Confederacy in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire HunterRobert A. Saunders2. Cry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Vampires of WarCynthia J. Miller3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red BaronA. Bowdoin Van Riper4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazis under the Polar Ice Cap! And Other Recent Episodes in the Strange Cinematic Afterlife of the Third ReichJames J. WardPart II: The Dead Don’t Rest5. The Wages of War: Spectral Children in The Devil’s BackboneMichael C. Reiff6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: The Haunted Soldier in Jacob’s LadderThomas Robert Argiro7. The Haunted TankPaul O’Connor8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in DeathwatchMarzena Sokołowska-Paryż9. The U.N.dead: Cold War Ghosts in Carol for Another ChristmasChristina M. KnopfPart III: Making Monsters10. Pall in the Family: Deathdream, House, and the Vietnam WarChristopher D. Stone11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: The Case of F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep and Graham Masterton’s The Devils of D-DayFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns12. Horror under the Radar: Memory, Revelation, and the Ghosts of BelowChristina V. Cedillo13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: The Gamification of War and the Reality of the Military Industrial ComplexSteve WebleyPart IV: Legacies and Memories14. “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 Prasch15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: The Mystery and Madness of Weird War TalesTerence Check16. War in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Haunted Visions of World War IIVincent Casaregola17. Specters of Media: Jacques Tardi’s Graphic Reanimation of the War of the TrenchesKatherine Kelp-Stebbins18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: Generic Complexity and the Ghost in the War/Horror FilmAmanda LandaIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors