Images of the Modern Vampire (eBook, ePUB)

The Hip and the Atavistic
Redaktion: Brodman, Barbara; Doan, James E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman 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 vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection also looked at the non-Western vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican traditions, Asian and Russian vampires in popular culture, and the vampire in contemporary novels, film and television. The essays in this collection continue that multi-cultural and multigeneric discussion by tracing the development of the post-modern vampire, in films ranging from Shadow of a Doubt to Blade, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Interview with the Vampire; the male and female vampires in the Twilight films, Sookie Stackhouse novels and TrueBlood television series; the vampire in African American women's fiction, Anne Rice's novels and in the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend; vampires in Japanese anime; and finally, to bring the volumes full circle, the presentation of a new Irish Dracula play, adapted from the novel and set in 1888.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611475838
• Artikelnr.: 39918193

Autorenporträt

Barbara Brodman is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American studies, and international business and has published a variety of scholarly works that deal with international arts and affairs. James E. Doan is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches courses in literature, the arts, folklore and mythology, including a course on the vampire which he has taught for some twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan Introduction The Vampire
in Modern Film Victoria Williams 1 - Reflecting Dracula: The Un-dead in
Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt Murray Leeder 2 - "A Species of One":
The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles Melissa
Olson 3 - Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal
Prejudice Simon Bacon 4 - Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric
Cuisine Race, Gender and the Vampire Donna Mitchell 5 - The Madonna and
Child: Re-Evaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice's Forgotten
Females Karin Hirmer 6 - Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in
Control Cheyenne Mathews 7 - 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 Zélie Asava 8 - "You're Nothing to Me But Another...
[White] Vampire": A Study of the Representation of the Black Vampire in
American Mainstream Cinema Marie-Luise Loeffler 9 - "She Would Be No Man's
Property Ever Again": Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in
Contemporary African American Women's Fiction New Readings of the Vampire
Alaina Steiner 10 - Blood-Abstinent Vampires & the Women Who Consume Them
Ben Murnane 11 - "Exactly My Brand of Heroin": Contexts and the Creation of
the Twilight Phenomenon Hope Jennings and Christine Wilson 12 -
Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series Sarah Heaton 13 - Vampire Vogue and
Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-up in the Sookie Stackhouse and
Twilight Series Batia Stolar 14 - The Politics of Reproduction in Stephenie
Meyer's Twilight Saga Burcu Genç 15 - The Vampire from an Evolutionary
Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+ James E. Doan and Barbara Brodman
16 - Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context: Reconfiguring the Universal
Vampire About the Contributors Index