Screening the Undead

Leon Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. His books include Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger (2003) and Cult British TV Comedy (2013). He is co-editor of East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (I.B.Tauris, 2008). Sharon Lockyer is a Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. She is editor of Reading Little Britain: Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television (I.B.Tauris 2010) and co-editor (with Michael Pickering) of Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2005, 2009). Milly Williamson is a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. She is the author of The Lure of the Vampire (2005) and Celebrity: The Making of Fame (forthcoming).

• Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer and Milly Williamson, ‘Introduction’Part One: The Mark of the Vampire – Race, Place, Gender, Identity and the Modern Undead2.Ian Cooper, ‘Manson, Drugs and Black Power: The Counter-Cultural Vampire’3.Stacey Abbott, ‘Taking Back the Night: The Female Vampire in New York’4.Peter Hutchings, ‘Northern Darkness: The curious case of the Swedish vampire’5.Milly Williamson, ‘Let Them All In: The Evolution of the Sympathetic Vampire’Part Two: Re-Writing the Living Dead – The Zombie in Popular Culture6.Jeffrey Sconce, ‘Dead Metaphors/Undead Allegories’7.Russ Hunter, ‘Nightmare Cities: Italian zombie cinema and environmental discourses’8.Emma Dyson, ‘Diary of a Plague Year: Perspectives of Destruction in Contemporary Zombie Film’9.Darren Elliott-Smith, ‘”Death is the New Pornography!”: Gay Zombies, Homonormativity and Consuming Masculinity in Queer Horror’Part Three: Hybrid Bloodlines10.Costas Constandinides, ‘From Mexico to Hollywood: Guillermo Del Toro’s Treatment of the Undead and the Making of a New Cult Icon’11.Nicola Woodham, ‘“Nollywood, Our Nollywood”: Resisting the Vampires’12.Steve Rawle, ‘The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: Miike Takashi’s The Happiness of the Katakuris as ‘Cult’ Hybrid’13.Andy Willis, ‘Amando de Ossario’s ‘Blind Dead’ Quartet and the Cultural Politics of Spanish Horror’