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

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In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Broadman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vamp...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brodman, Barbara (Editor)
Doan, James E. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Vampire films.
Vampire films > History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
Physical Description:xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.