Table of Contents
Preface
Rebecca Gibson
Section One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and Folklore
Freya Fenton
Section Two: Social Death/Cyborg Transformation
Chapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots
Sarah Stang
Chapter 3: “We’re All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing”: Gender, Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard’s The Tea Master and the Detective
Alex Claman
Chapter 4: “The House Wants Me to Stay”: Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in the Haunted House Subgenre
Victor Hernández-Santaolalla
Section Three: Between Life and Death
Chapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chelsi Slotten
Chapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral Panic
Holly Walters
Chapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities in Sektor Gaza
Lev Nikulin
Chapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fatal Female: Vampiric Power as Coded Female in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Only Lovers Left Alive
Rebecca Gibson
Section Four: Reanimation with Sentience
Chapter 9: Masculinity, and Not Femininity, As Gendered “Nature” in Cinematic Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Devi Snively and Agustín Fuentes
Chapter 10: The Animated Dead: Reimagining the Beautiful Corpse in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Gillian Wittstock
Chapter 11: Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un)dead in Popular Culture
Matt Coward-Gibbs and Bethan Michael-Fox
Section Five: Reanimation without Sentience
Chapter 12: Behind the Door: Sukuma Mitunga (Zombie) Narratives as Social Critique in Northwestern Tanzania
Amy Nichols-Belo
Chapter 13: Does Death Destroy the Binary? A Look at Gender Roles During Human/Zombie Interaction in the World War Z Universe
Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen
Afterlife and Afterword
James M. VanderVeen