Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms
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Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms

Essays on Gender, Race and Culture

  1. 338 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms

Essays on Gender, Race and Culture

About this book

Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films and Hammer's Technicolor representations that followed, iterations of Dracula have been cemented in mainstream cinema. This anthology investigates and explores the far larger body of work coming from sources beyond mainstream cinema reinventing Dracula.

Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms assembles provocative essays that examine Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and genre since the 1920s. The essays analyze the complexity Dracula embodies outside the conventional landscape of films with which the vampire is typically associated. Focusing on Dracula and Dracula-type characters in film, anime, and literature from predominantly non-Anglo markets, this anthology offers unique perspectives that seek to ground depictions and experiences of Dracula within a larger political, historical, and cultural framework.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Documenting Dracula and Global Identities in Film, Literature, and Anime
  5. Part I. TACKLING RACE, GENDER, AND MODES OF NARRATION IN AMERICA
  6. Chapter 01. Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the Complexities of the Classic Horror Film Sequel
  7. Chapter 02. The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) Cultural Revolution
  8. Chaapter 03. The Compulsions of Real/Reel Serial Killers and Vampires: Toward a Gothic Criminology
  9. Chapter 04. Blood, Lust, and the Fe/Male Narrative in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) and the Novel (1897)
  10. Chapter 05. The Borg as Vampire in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996): An Uncanny Reflection
  11. Chapter 06. When Women Kill: Undead Imagery in the Cinematic Portrait of Aileen Wuornos
  12. Part II. WORKING THROUGH CHANGE AND XENOPHOBIA IN EUROPE
  13. Chapter 07. Return Ticket to Transylvania: Relations between Historical Reality and Vampire Fiction
  14. Chapter 08. Racism and the Vampire: The Anti-Slavic Premise of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
  15. Chapter 09. The Grateful Un-Dead: Count Dracula and the Transnational Counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
  16. Chapter 10. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) as a Legacy of Romanticism
  17. Part III. IMPERIALISM, HYBRIDITY, AND CROSS-CULTURAL FERTILIZATION IN ASIA
  18. Chapter 11. “Death and the Maiden”: The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture
  19. Chapter 12. Becoming-Death: The Lollywood Gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz’s Zinda Laash (Dracula in Pakistan [US title], 1967)
  20. Chapter 13. Modernity as Crisis: Goeng Si and Vampires in Hong Kong Cinema
  21. Chapter 14. Enter the Dracula: The Silent Screams and Cultural Crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong Cinema
  22. Chapter 15. Identity Crisis: Imperialist Vampires in Japan?
  23. Chapter 16. The Western Eastern: Decoding Hybridity and CyberZen Goth(ic) in Vampire Hunter D (1985)
  24. Index
  25. About the Editors and Contributors