The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

2013. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-37013-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3992 g

Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire, and television programmes such as Being Human and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mutch, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction 'A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas': the Vampire in English and American Literature; D.Mutch Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text; K.Scott Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire; B.Jones 'Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?': Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction; H.Priest Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight Series; S.Heaton Whiteness and the Contemporary Vampire in Film and Television; E.Kirkland The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victim Hood and Post-Memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire; S.Bacon Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other; C.Reed Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series; Y.Maurer The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice; V.Amador Matt Haig's The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age; D.Mutch References

Über Autor(innen)

VICTORIA AMADOR Assistant Professor in English at the American University in Sharjah, UAE
SIMON BACON Independent Scholar
SARAH HEATON Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of English at the University of Chester, UK
BETHAN JONES PhD candidate in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University, UK
EWAN KIRKLAND teaches Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton, UK
YAEL MAURER Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel
HANNAH PRIEST Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK
CLARE REED Sessional lecturer at the University of Reading and the University of Portsmouth, UK
KEITH SCOTT Subject Leader for English Language at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK