The modern vampire and human identity [electronic resource] / edited by Deborah Mutch.
Mutch, Deborah, 1965-
2013
PR888.V3 M63 2013eb
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Title
The modern vampire and human identity [electronic resource] / edited by Deborah Mutch.
ISBN
9780230370142 (electronic bk.)
9780230370135
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 220 p.)
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PR888.V3 M63 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.009/375
Summary
Why are we surrounded by vampires in the twenty-first century? From the global phenomena of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" and Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse", through films such as "Underworld" and "Blade", television series such as "The Vampire Diaries" and "Being Human", to video games like "Bloodrayne" and "Legacy of Kain", the reader, viewer and player has never had so many vampires to choose from. This collection considers the importance of the current flurry of vampires for our sense of human identity. Vampires have long been read as bodies through which our sense of ourselves has been reflected back to us. The essays offer readings of the modern vampire as a complex consideration of our modern human selves. Now that we no longer see the vampire as essentially evil, what does that say about us?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Mutch, Deborah, 1965-
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Introduction: "a swarm of chuffing draculas": the vampire in English and American literature / Deborah Mutch
Blood, bodies, books: Kim Newman and the vampire as cultural text / Keith Scott
Buffy vs. Bella: gender, relationships and the modern vampire / Bethan Jones
"Hell! was I becoming a vampyre slut?": sex, sexuality and morality in young adult vampire fiction / Hannah Priest
Consuming clothes and dressing desire in the Twilight series / Sarah Heaton
Whiteness and the contemporary vampire in film and television / Ewan Kirkland
The vampiric diaspora: the complications of victimhood and post-memory as configured in the Jewish migrant vampire / Simon Bacon
Vampires and gentiles: Jews, Mormons and embracing the other / Clare Reed
Transcending the massacre: vampire Mormons in the Twilight series / Yael Maurer
The gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice / Victoria Amador
Matt Haig's the Radleys: vampires for the neoliberal age / Deborah Mutch.

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