Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction - Sam George and Bill Hughes 2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire - Conrad Aquilina, 3. Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion - Julieann Ulin 4. 'He make in the mirror no reflect': Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed's 'vampiric painting' - Sam George 5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers' Vampir - Lisa Lampert-Weissig 6. The Undead in the kingdom of shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire - Stacey Abbott 7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film - Lindsey Scott 8. 'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Malgorzata Drewniok 9. 'Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle' - Catherine Spooner 10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and Twilight - Jennifer H. Williams 11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body - Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt 12. The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood - Michelle Smith 13. 'Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries' - Kimberley McMahon-Coleman 14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface - Ivan Phillips 15. 'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference, and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead - Bill Hughes 16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction - writing My Swordhand is Singing - Marcus Sedgwick Bibliography Index
1. Introduction - Sam George and Bill Hughes 2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire - Conrad Aquilina, 3. Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion - Julieann Ulin 4. 'He make in the mirror no reflect': Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed's 'vampiric painting' - Sam George 5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers' Vampir - Lisa Lampert-Weissig 6. The Undead in the kingdom of shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire - Stacey Abbott 7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film - Lindsey Scott 8. 'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Malgorzata Drewniok 9. 'Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle' - Catherine Spooner 10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and Twilight - Jennifer H. Williams 11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body - Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt 12. The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood - Michelle Smith 13. 'Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries' - Kimberley McMahon-Coleman 14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface - Ivan Phillips 15. 'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference, and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead - Bill Hughes 16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction - writing My Swordhand is Singing - Marcus Sedgwick Bibliography Index
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