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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Introduction: "a swarm of chuffing Draculas": the vampire in English and American literature / Deborah Mutch -- Blood, bodies, books: Kim Newman and the vampire as cultural text / Keith Scott -- Buffy vs. Bella: gender, relationships and the modern vampire / Bethan Jones -- "Hell! was I becoming a vampyre slut?": sex, sexuality and morality in young adult vampire fiction / Hannah Priest -- Consuming clothes and dressing desire in the Twilight series / Sarah Heaton -- Whiteness and the contemporary vampire in film and television / Ewan Kirkland -- The vampiric diaspora: the complications of victimhood and post-memory as configured in the Jewish migrant vampire / Simon Bacon -- Vampires and gentiles: Jews, Mormons and embracing the other / Clare Reed -- Transcending the massacre: vampire Mormons in the Twilight series / Yael Maurer -- The gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice / Victoria Amador -- Matt Haig's the Radleys: vampires for the neoliberal age / Deborah Mutch |
| Summary |
"Why are we surrounded by vampires in the twenty-first century? From the global phenomena of Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' and Charlaine Harris's 'Sookie Stackhouse', through films such as 'Underworld' and 'Blade', television series such as 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'Being Human', to video games like 'Bloodrayne' and 'Legacy of Kain', the reader, viewer and player has never had so many vampires to choose from. This collection considers the importance of the current flurry of vampires for our sense of human identity. Vampires have long been read as bodies through which our sense of ourselves has been reflected back to us. The essays offer readings of the modern vampire as a complex consideration of our modern human selves. Now that we no longer see the vampire as essentially evil, what does that say about us?"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
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Vampires in literature.
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Vampire films -- History and criticism
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Vampires on television.
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Film theory & criticism.
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Film: styles & genres.
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Television.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Performing Arts.
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American fiction
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English fiction
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Horror tales, American
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Horror tales, English
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Vampire films
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Vampires in literature
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Vampires on television
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mutch, Deborah, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780230370142 |
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0230370144 |
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9781283946742 |
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1283946742 |
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1349350699 |
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9781349350698 |
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