Vampires in the New World
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Vampires in the New World

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Vampires in the New World

About this book

This book provides an engaging historical survey of the vampire in American popular culture over 100 years, ranging from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula to HBO's television series True Blood. Vampires in the New World surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction, classic horror films, film noir, science fiction, horror fiction, blaxploitation, and the recent Twilight and True Blood series in order to demonstrate how cultural, scientific, and ideological trends are reflected and refracted through the figure of the vampire. The book will fascinate anyone with an interest in vampires as they are found in literature, film, television, and popular culture, as well as readers who appreciate horror and supernatural fiction, crime fiction, science fiction, and the gothic. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the interplay between society and film, television, and popular culture, and to readers who want to understand why the figure of the vampire has remained compelling to us across different eras and generations.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780313391330
eBook ISBN
9780313391347

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Taking Vampires Seriously
  7. 1 Vampire Scholarship
  8. 2 Dracula's American
  9. 3 Early New World Vampires
  10. 4 Vamps in Hollywood
  11. 5 Blood and Pulp
  12. 6 Class-ic Horror
  13. 7 Urban Legends
  14. 8 Hammering It Home
  15. 9 Countering Vampire Culture
  16. 10 Black Vampires
  17. 11 Vampire Celebrities
  18. 12 Blood Consumers
  19. 13 Buffy Rules
  20. 14 Vampires for Children
  21. 15 White Trash and Teen Melodrama
  22. 16 Vampire Comedy
  23. Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here?
  24. Selected Chronological Filmography
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index