Images of the modern vampire : the hip and the atavistic

Images of the modern vampire : the hip and the atavistic / edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan.

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...

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Other Authors: Brodman, Barbara (Editor), Doan, James E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Vampire films.
Vampire films > History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Vampire films
Vampires in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Films de vampires.
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Table of 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.

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