| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) |
| Contents |
The Vampire in Modern Film. Reflecting Dracula : The Un-dead in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt / Victoria Williams -- "A Species of One" : The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles / Murray Leeder -- Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice / Melissa Olsen -- Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine / Simon Bacon -- Race, Gender and the Vampire. The Madonna and Child: Re-Evaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice's Forgotten Females / Donna Mitchell -- Female Empowerment : Buffy and Her Heiresses in Control / Karin Hirmer -- Lightening "The White Man's Burden" : Evolution of the Vampire from the Victorian Racialism of Dracula to the New World Order of I Am Legend / Cheyenne Mathews -- "You're Nothing to Me But Another ... [White] Vampire" : A Study of the Representation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema / Zélie Asava -- "She Would Be No Man's Property Ever Again" : Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women's Fiction / Marie-Luise Loeffler -- New Readings of the Vampire. Blood-Abstinent Vampires & the Women Who Consume Them / Alaina Steiner -- "Exactly My Brand of Heroin" : Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon / Ben Murnane -- Disciplinary Lessons : Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series / Hope Jennings and Christine Wilson -- Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion : Dressing Skin and Dressing-up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series / Sarah Heaton -- The Politics of Reproduction in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga / Batia Stolar -- The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation : Blood+ / Burcu Genç -- Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context : Reconfiguring the Universal Vampire / James E. Doan and Barbara Brodman |
| Summary |
This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th-century film versions. Instead, we move around the world and into the 21st-century: reshaping the legend into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant while retaining elements of folklore mixed with a hint of science fiction. This book is intended for aficionados of folklore and mythology, as well as literary and film scholars, vampire devotees, and a more general audience interested in the supern |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (251-253) and index |
| Subject |
Vampire films
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Vampire films -- History and criticism
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Vampires in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Vampire films
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Vampires in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Vampire films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Vampire films.
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Films de vampires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brodman, Barbara, editor
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Doan, James E., editor
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| ISBN |
9781611475838 |
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161147583X |
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