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Barbara Brodman is professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Nova Southeastern University.
James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbara Brodman and James E Doan
Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials
1Of Angels and Demons: Staging the Demise of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” through Supernatural Allegory
C. Austin Hill
2No More Mr. Nice Angel: Angelic Ethics from Paradise Lost to Supernatural
Scott Culpepper
3The Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu
Paul E. H. Davis
4Of Fairies and Sorcerers: Dichotomous Depictions of Race and Ethnicity in 1980s Fantasy
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman
5Philosophers and Demons: Socrates, Descartes and the Search for Certainty Darren Hibbs
6The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and the Making of Caribbean Nationhood
Andrea Shaw Nevins
7An American Werewolf in Trelleborg: Representation of the Werewolf in Swedish Folk Belief and Popular Culture
Tommy Kuusela
8Magic Mexican Modernity: The Shifting Image of Witches and Witchcraft in the Movies
Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández
9Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and "Creature" Genetics
Ashley Szanter
Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead
10An Anime Dullahan: The Irish Death Messenger Adapted in Japanese Popular Culture
Masaya Shimokusu
11Re-dressing Revenants: Anxieties of the Body, the Self and Desire When the Undead Make a Stylish Return
Sarah Heaton
12From Vampires to Zombies: The Revisionist Recreation of I Am Legend
Jessica E. Birch
13Dying to Love You: The Evolution of the Romantic Zombie
Simon Bacon
14Undead Yakuza: The Japanese Zombie Movie, Cultural Resonance and Generic Conventions
Kayleigh Murphy and Mark David Ryan
15“Look at the Flowers”: Female Evolution in the Face of the Zombie Hordes of The Walking Dead
Cynthia Vinney and Caryn Wiley-Rapoport
16From White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond: The Evolution of the Zombie in Western Popular Culture
Todd K. Platts
17From Saga to Skyrim: The Literary and Multimedia Reception of the Norse-Icelandic Draugr Myth
Matthias Teichert
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
The third collection edited by Brodman and Doan—after The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (CH, Aug'14, 51-6535)—this volume offers 17 brief essays written by international scholars in various disciplines and focused on a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. The first section, 'Ethereals and Terrestrials,' emphasizes the seemingly endless variety of supernatural creatures from the ancient world to the present; the second, 'The Undead and Still Dead,' focuses more on various versions of zombie narratives in popular culture. Highlights include treatments of culture-specific supernatural creatures in popular culture, including essays by Tommy Kuusela, Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, and Masaya Shimokusu, writing on Swedish, Mexican, and Japanese culture, respectively.... Summing Up: Recommended.... Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.
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