The universal vampire [[electronic resource] ] : origins and evolution of a legend / / edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan

• Pubblicazione: Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 398.21
• Soggetto topico: Vampires; Animals, Mythical
• 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 WESTERN VAMPIRE:FROM DRAUGR TO DRACULA; Chapter 1. "Draugula": The Draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth; Chapter 2. Dracula Anticipated: The "Undead" in Anglo-Irish Literature; Chapter 3. Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula; Chapter 4. Dracula's Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language, and Ethnography; Part II. MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR THE VAMPIRE ; Chapter 5. Biomedical Origins of VampirismChapter 6. Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic; Chapter 7. Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Flückinger's Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium; Part III. THE FEMALE VAMPIRE IN WORLD MYTH AND THE ARTS; Chapter 8. Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight; Chapter 9. Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr and Mario Bava's The Mask of Satan ; Chapter 10. The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican LoreChapter 11. Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005); Chapter 12. "If I Wasn't a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?" Le Fanu's Carmilla and Alfredson's Let the Right One In; Part IV. OLD AND NEW WORLD MANIFESTATIONS OF THE VAMPIRE; Chapter 13. A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires; Chapter 14. From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture ; Chapter 15. Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes's Vlad, Echoes of Origins, and the Return of ColonialismChapter 16. Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama, and the Mise-en-Scène of Two Mexican Vampire Films; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors
• 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 and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon.
• Titolo autorizzato: The universal vampire
• ISBN: 1-299-24337-1; 1-61147-581-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792075503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II