The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in…mehr
The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cait Coker is associate professor and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on genre history, women's writing, and the history of women in publishing.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments 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) 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) "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: Real and 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
Table of Contents Acknowledgments 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) 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) "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: Real and 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
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