| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) |
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Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 68 |
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Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 68.
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| Contents |
Preface (and In Memoriam) -- Introduction-Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture / Cait Coker -- The Americas and Canada. Biting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative / Candace R. Benefiel -- "I'll give you blood to drink": The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials / Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez -- Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative / Kendra R. Parker -- The Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla / Natalie Krikowa -- Éternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec / Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville |
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Europe and the Mediterranean. "The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!": Racism, "True" Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film / Simon Bacon -- Amid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In / Marie Levesque) -- The Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri per i vampiri / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- "Time is an abyss": The Role of History in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu (1979) / Thomas Prasch -- There's Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive / Karen E. Viars -- Asia and Australia. From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire "Fan" in Korean Dramas / Cait Coker |
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"Don't adjust your life to mine": Moon Child, Homoeroticism and the Vampire as Multifaceted Other / Miranda Ruth Larsen -- Aboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality / Naomi Simone Borwein -- "In need of vitamin sea": The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager's Vampires / Phil Fitzsimmons -- Globalism: Realand Virtual Worlds? The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change as a Holocaust / Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad -- "Set to drain": Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion / Trevor Dodge -- Afterword / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- About the Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"The figure of the vampire is a truly global phenomenon, with popular interpretations appearing in Europe and Asia that are distinct from any versions found in the Americas. Instead, the global vampire draws from indigenous mythology as well as popular culture, and is freed from typical readings of monstrosity and otherness. This collection features over a dozen interdisciplinary scholars reading popular texts through critical lenses that range from traditional literary studies, to video game scholarship, to ecocriticism. Challenging the field of popular vampire studies, this book asks the question: What is the vampire in different global contexts, and what does it represent?"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W.Sullivan III"-- Title page |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Vampires -- Cross-cultural studies
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Vampires in popular culture.
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Vampires in literature.
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Vampires
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Vampires in literature
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Vampires in popular culture
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coker, Cait, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781476637334 |
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1476637334 |
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