Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
2019
E169.12 .N54 2019
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Title
Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
ISBN
9781137583772 (electronic book)
1137583770 (electronic book)
1137583762
9781137583765
1137583770 (electronic book)
1137583762
9781137583765
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London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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E169.12 .N54 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.40973
Summary
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.
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Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 'something from the vampire's point of view'
Secrets and lies : postmodern undeath in the 1970s
Family values, apocalyptic plagues, and yuppie undeath in the 1980s
Gothic double vision at the Fin-de-Millennium
Fundamentalism, hybridity, and remapping the vampire body
Vampire intimacy, profusion, and rewriting undeath.
Secrets and lies : postmodern undeath in the 1970s
Family values, apocalyptic plagues, and yuppie undeath in the 1980s
Gothic double vision at the Fin-de-Millennium
Fundamentalism, hybridity, and remapping the vampire body
Vampire intimacy, profusion, and rewriting undeath.