04494oam 22006374a 450 991046105170332120211004152545.01-5261-0215-3(CKB)3710000000529332(EBL)4706209(MiAaPQ)EBC4706209(Au-PeEL)EBL4706209(CaPaEBR)ebr11274610(OCoLC)960166179(OCoLC)1100842875(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78504(EXLCZ)99371000000052933220160906h20162013 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOpen graves, open mindsRepresentations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /edited by Sam George and Bill HughesManchester, [England] ;Oxford, England :Manchester University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (335 pages) illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s)Description based upon print version of record.1-78499-362-X 0-7190-8941-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.1.Introduction /Sam George and Bill Hughes --2.The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire /Conrad Aquilina --3.Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion /Julieann Ulin --4.'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction : Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed's 'vampire painting' /Sam George --5.The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampir /Lisa Lampert-Weissig --6.The undead in the kingdom of the shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire /Stacey Abbott --7.Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film /Lindsey Scott --8.'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer /Malgorzata Drewniok --9.Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle /Catherine Spooner --10.A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and The Twilight Saga /Jennifer H. Williams --11.The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body /Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt --12.The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood /Michelle J. Smith --13.Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries /Kimberley McMahon-Coleman --14.The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface /Ivan Phillips --15.'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead /Bill Hughes --16.The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction: writing My Swordhand is Singing /Marcus Sedgwick.This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, Bram SVampires on televisionfast(OCoLC)fst01740498Vampires in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01163974Vampire filmsfast(OCoLC)fst01163964Vampire filmsHistory and criticismVampires on televisionVampires in literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Vampires on television.Vampires in literature.Vampire films.Vampire filmsHistory and criticism.Vampires on television.Vampires in literature.791.43675Hughes BillGeorge SamDr.,MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910461051703321Open graves, open minds2273753UNINA