| Reading the Vampire Contributor(s): Gelder, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415080134 ISBN-13: 9780415080132 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Transylvanian wildernesses and a morbid fascination with the "other: " the legend of the vampire continues to haunt the popular imagination. br br b /b b i Reading the Vampire /i /b examines the creature in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film--from early vampire stories such as Polidori's i The Vampire /i, J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "lesbian vampire" tale i Carmilla /i and Bram Stoker's i Dracula /i, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, "post-Ceausescu" vampire narratives, and films such as F.W. Murnau's i Nosferatu /i and Francis Ford Coppola's i Bram Stoker's Dracula /i . br br b /b b i Reading the /i /b b /b b i Vampire /i /b embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing how vampire narratives reproduce the anxieties and fascinations of their times--from nineteenth century investmets in travel and tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity and obsessions with sex, to queer identity of the vampire, the association of the vampire with the "global exotic" and current concerns about wayward youth and the family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 809.393 |
| LCCN: 93-44485 |
| Series: Popular Fictions Series |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.1" W x 9.27" (0.62 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination. Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS. |