Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
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Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods

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Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods

About this book

The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims' blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises. In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire's popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes. Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood, Twilight, Underworld and The Strain, classics such as Universal's Dracula and DrĂĄcula, and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781474423090
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. VAMPIRES, RACE, AND TRANSNATIONAL HOLLYWOODS
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION: MIGRATIONS AND MUTATIONS
  7. 1. BLOOD, BODIES, AND BORDERS
  8. 2. “MAKING” AMERICANS FROM FOREIGNERS
  9. 3. CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: THE UNNATURAL WHITENESS OF AMERICA
  10. 4. INTERNATIONAL HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: COSMOPOLITANISMS OF “FOREIGN MOVIES”
  11. 5. VAMPIRES OF COLOR: A CRITIQUE OF MULTICULTURAL WHITENESS
  12. 6. TERRORIST VAMPIRES: RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OR PLANETARY ADVOCACY
  13. 7. OTHER VAMPIRES, OTHER HOLLYWOODS: SERIALIZED CITIZENSHIP AND NARROWCAST DIFFERENCE
  14. CONCLUSION: HISTORY AND HOLLYWOOD, MASHED-UP
  15. FILMOGRAPHY
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. INDEX