Undead in the West Vampires, Zombies,

Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television, and Games by Paul Green (McFarland, 2009), 273 pages, paper, $25Pub Alley: 113 ($4,555); BookScan: 145; WorldCat: 25

Cynthia J. Miller is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Scarecrow, 2012). A. Bowdoin Van Riper is the editor of Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films (2011).

Acknowlegments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Reanimating Classic Western Tropes
"So This Zombie Walks into a Bar …": The Living, the Undead, and the Western Saloon	p. 3
"Hey Sammy, We're Not in Kansas Anymore": The Frontier Motif in Supernatural	p. 19
The Whore with the Vampire Heart: Frontier Romanticism in John Carpenter's Vampires	p. 33
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula: The Old World Meets the Old West	p. 45
The West--Reanimated and Regenerated: Hollywood Horror and Western Iconography in Gore Verbinski's Rango (2011)	p. 65
Frontier Values Meet Big-City Zombies: The Old West in AMC's The Walking Dead	p. 80
The Moral Order under Siege
Savage, Scoundrel, Seducer: The Moral Order under Siege in the From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy	p. 97
Blood on the Border: The Mexican Frontier in Vampires (1998) and Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)	p. 113
Colliding Modalities and Receding Frontier in George Romero's Land of the Dead	p. 133
Zombie Nationalism: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror as Immigration! Satire	p. 150
Undead and Un-American: The Zombified Other in Weird Western Films	p. 166
Hungry Lands: Conquest, Cannibalism, and the Wendigo Spirit	p. 182
And Hell Followed with Him
The Ghost from the Past: The Undead Avenger in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West	p. 207
Moving West and Beyond: Life in the Midst of Death in Purgatory	p. 220
"You Nasty Thing from Beyond the Dead": Elvis and JFK versus the Mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep	p. 237
The Subversive Jonah Hex: Jimmy Hayward's Revision and Reconfiguration of a Genre	p. 253
Queer Justice: Supernatural Strangers and Different Conceptions of Law and Punishment in Two Horror Westerns	p. 268
A Selected Filmography	p. 283
Index	p. 289
About the Contributors	p. 311
About the Editors	p. 317
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Undead in the West Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier

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