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The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World(68 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World(68 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)


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2021 | Lord Ruthven Award for Best Nonfiction—International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
“This collection offers many layers of what it means to be vampiric and brings a mixture of theories to the discussion; whether you are a student of race, feminism, gender, sexuality, history, hybridity, or nationalism, you will find something here to support your research… This book is both enjoyable and informative; the writing is professional, clear, and interesting. It is not every scholarly book which one can describe as fun and entertaining, but this was both.”—Journal of Popular Culture


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  • ISBN-13: 9781476675947
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 251
  • Series Title: 68 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1476675945
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jan 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 426 gr


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