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Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy

Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy

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Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre—the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Simon Bacon Part I: Comedy and the Vampire What We Do in Twilight Shadows: Comedy in the Vampire Genre as Both a Celebration and a Weapon Andrew M. Boylan The Comedy of Terrors: A Humor Theory Analysis of Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving Matthew McKeague Dracula in New York: The Comic, Anachronistic Vampire in Love at First Bite and Vamps Murray Leeder Less Blacula and More Buffy: The ­Self-Aware Mythology of Vampire in Brooklyn Valerie Estelle Frankel Part II: Spoofing Across Media Care for a Bite? Vampire-Inspired Cookbooks Victoria Amador Defanging Nosferatu: Case Studies of the Neutering of Bloodsuckers, Vampires and the Undead Across Children’s Media (1950s–1980s) Robert Mclaughlin Between Sentimentality, Sentience and Sense Making: The Visual Markers of the Vampire in Online Caricatures Phil Fitzsimmons Part III: Spoofing and Gender “Meet the Camp Vamp”: Exploring Genre, the Vampire as a Comedic Figure and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Blair Speakman and Carmel Cedro Refusing Life in the Shadows: The Anti-Patriarchal Bite of What We Do in the Shadows Natalie Wilson Mocking Masculinity: Comedy and Subversion in ­Women-Directed Vampire Films Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Donna McRae Fuckable Bodies: Male Virginity in Vamp, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and Once Bitten Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part IV: Seriously Spoofing Vampires Clashing with the 21st Century: Analyzing Postmodern Irony in What We Do in the Shadows Zita Hüsing Spoofing the Byronic, Changing the Vampire: Locating the Byronic Hero in What We Do in the Shadows (2014– ) Debaditya Mukhopadhyay A Spike for an Angel: How the Comic Bites into the Dramatic Ildikó Limpár “This is the bloody ­twenty-first century!” The (Post)Modern Vampires of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh About the Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476682686
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 367 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1476682682
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2022
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
  • Width: 152 mm


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