Not of the Living Dead

Noah Simon Jampol is an assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He lives in New Jersey. Cain Miller is a PhD student in cinema and media studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on masculinity and the male body in horror cinema. Leah Richards is a professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. She has published articles on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Romero's Land of the Dead, and the penny dreadful on which Sweeney Todd is based. John R. Ziegler, associate professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, has published work on early modern literature, Shakespeare, and video games. He serves as co-editor of the journal Supernatural Studies.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. “Isn’t that cheating?”: Extradiegetic Narrative Control in There’s Always Vanilla

Leah Richards

2. “You’ve really got to get with it, Mrs. Mitchell”: Freud, Friedan and Jack’s Wife

Leah Richards

3. L’Univers Concentrationnaire of The Crazies

Noah Simon Jampol

4. Draining the Blood of the Patriarch: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in Martin

Cain Miller

5. The King Is Dead; Long Live the King: Capitalism and Nostalgia in Knightriders

Leah Richards

6. Creepshow and Patriarchal Horror(s)

John R. Ziegler

7. Race and Murder in Creepshow

John R. Ziegler

8. “The Monkey Ruled the Man”: Phallocentrism, ­Able-Bodiedness and AIDS Anxieties in Monkey Shines

Cain Miller

 9. Animating Politics, Reanimating Genres in “Cat from Hell” and “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar”

Noah Simon Jampol and John R. Ziegler

10. Queer Reproduction and the Family in The Dark Half

John R. Ziegler

11. “The New (White) Face of Terror”: White Male Victimization in Bruiser

Cain Miller

Conclusion: From Amusement to Evil

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index