Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side Contributor(s): Adler, Margot (Author) |
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ISBN: 1578635608 ISBN-13: 9781578635603 Publisher: Weiser Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
Dewey: 809.393 |
LCCN: 2013048373 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.02" W x 9.1" (0.88 lbs) 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written. ?Whitley Strieber
As Adler, a longtime NPR correspondent and question asker, sat vigil at her dying husband's bedside, she found herself newly drawn to vampire novels and their explorations of mortality. Over the next four years--by now she has read more than 270 vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic--she began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th century England's fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. Think Spike and Angel, Stefan and Damon, Bill and Eric, the Cullens. Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adler, Margot: - Margot Adler has been involved with Earthbased spirituality, Wicca, and Paganism since 1972. She is the author of Drawing Down the Moon, the classic study of Paganism and Goddess Spirituality, as well as Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution. In her mundane life, she is a 35year veteran correspondent for NPR whose pieces regularly air on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She lives in New York City. Visit her at www.margotadler.com. |