Images of the Modern Vampire
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Images of the Modern Vampire

The Hip and the Atavistic

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Images of the Modern Vampire

The Hip and the Atavistic

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The Vampire in Modern Film
  5. Chapter 1: Reflecting Dracula: The Undead in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt
  6. Chapter 2: A Species of One: The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles
  7. Chapter 3: Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice
  8. Chapter 4: Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine
  9. Part II: Race, Gender and the Vampire
  10. Chapter 5: The Madonna and Child: Reevaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice’s Forgotten Females
  11. Chapter 6: Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in Control
  12. Chapter 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
  13. Chapter 8: You’re Nothing to Me But Another . . . [White] Vampire”: A Study of the Representation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema
  14. Chapter 9: She Would Be No Man’s Property Ever Again”: Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women’s Fiction
  15. Part III: New Readings of the Vampire
  16. Chapter 10: Blood-Abstinent Vampires and the Women Who Consume Them
  17. Chapter 11: “Exactly My Brand of Heroin”: Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon
  18. Chapter 12: Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series
  19. Chapter 13: Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-Up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series
  20. Chapter 14: The Politics of Reproduction in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga
  21. Chapter 15: The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+
  22. Chapter 16: Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context: Reconfiguring the Universal Vampire
  23. Selected Bibliography
  24. About the Editors and Contributors