Images of the modern vampire : the hip and the atavistic / / edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan

• Pubblicazione: Madison ; ; Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : , : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 398/.45
• Soggetto topico: Vampires; Criticism
• Altri autori: BrodmanBarbara DoanJames E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE VAMPIRE IN MODERN FILM; Chapter 1. Reflecting Dracula: The Undead in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt; Chapter 2. A Species of One: The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles; Chapter 3. Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice; Chapter 4. Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine; PART II. RACE, GENDER AND THE VAMPIRE; Chapter 5. The Madonna and Child: Reevaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice's Forgotten Females ; Chapter 6. Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in ControlChapter 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; Chapter 8. You're Nothing to Me But Another . . . [White] Vampire": A Study of theRepresentation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema; Chapter 9. She Would Be No Man's Property Ever Again": Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women's Fiction; PART III. NEW READINGS OF THE VAMPIRE ; Chapter 10. Blood-Abstinent Vampires and the Women Who Consume ThemChapter 11. "Exactly My Brand of Heroin": Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon; Chapter 12. Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series; Chapter 13. Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-Up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series; Chapter 14. The Politics of Reproduction in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga; Chapter 15. The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+ ; Chapter 16. Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context: Reconfiguring the Universal VampireSelected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th-century film versions. Instead, we move around the world and into the 21st-century: reshaping the legend into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant while retaining elements of folklore mixed with a hint of science fiction. This book is intended for aficionados of folklore and mythology, as well as literary and film scholars, vampire devotees, and a more general audience interested in the supern
• Titolo autorizzato: Images of the modern vampire
• ISBN: 1-61147-583-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789472703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II