| The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World Contributor(s): Coker, Cait (Editor), Palumbo, Donald E. (Editor), Sullivan, C. W., III (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1476675945 ISBN-13: 9781476675947 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - Horror - Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.21 |
| LCCN: 2019051450 |
| Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.75 lbs) 251 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster. |