Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier Book

Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Part I: Reanimating Classic Western Tropes
1. “So This Zombie Walks into a Bar . . .”: The Living, the Undead, and the Western Saloon Cynthia J. Miller
2. “Hey Sammy, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore”: The Frontier Motif in Supernatural Michael J. Klein and Kristi L. Shackelford
3. The Whore with the Vampire Heart: Frontier Romanticism in John Carpenter’s Vampires Lindsay Krishna Coleman
4. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula: The Old World Meets the Old West Rachel E. Page, Robert G. Weiner, and Cynthia J. Miller
5. The West—Reanimated and Regenerated: Hollywood Horror and Western Iconography in Gore Verbinski’s Rango (2011)
Sue Matheson
6. Frontier Values Meet Big-City Zombies: The Old West in AMC’s The Walking Dead Shelley S. Rees

Part II: The Moral Order under Siege
7. Savage, Scoundrel, Seducer: The Moral Order under Siege in the From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy A. Bowdoin Van Riper
8. Blood on the Border: The Mexican Frontier in Vampires (1998) and Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
Thomas Prasch
9. Colliding Modalities and Receding Frontier in George Romero’s Land of the Dead Outi J. Hakola
10. Zombie Nationalism: Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror as Immigration Satire Christopher Gonzalez
11. Undead and Un-American: The Zombified Other in Weird Western Films James Hewitson
12. Hungry Lands: Conquest, Cannibalism, and the Wendigo Spirit Robert A. Saunders

Part III: And Hell Followed with Him
13. The Ghost from the Past: The Undead Avenger in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West Matthias Stork
14. Moving West and Beyond: Life in the Midst of Death in Purgatory Hugh H. Davis
15. “You Nasty Thing from Beyond the Dead”: Elvis and JFK versus The Mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep Hannah Thompson
16. The Subversive Jonah Hex: Jimmy Hayward’s Revision and Reconfiguration of a Genre Michael C. Reiff
17. Queer Justice: Supernatural Strangers and Different Conceptions of Law and Punishment in Two Horror Westerns Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

A Selected Filmography About the Contributors About the Editors