| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Manchester, [England] ; ; Oxford, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s)
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| Disciplina |
791.43675
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| Soggetto topico |
Vampires on television
Vampires in literature
Vampire films
Vampire films - History and criticism
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
1-5261-0215-3
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
; 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.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461051703321 |
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Open graves, open minds : Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day / / edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes
