ISBN:
9781611475821
,
9781611475838
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 263 S.
Edition:
Sekundärausgabe
Parallel Title:
Reproduktion von Brodman, Barbara, 1943- Images of the Modern Vampire
DDC:
398.45
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2012
;
Vampires / History
;
Vampires / Psychological aspects
;
Vampires
;
Geschichte
;
Psychologie
;
Literatur
;
Vampir
;
Film
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Vampir
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1900-2012
Abstract:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE VAMPIRE IN MODERN FILM; Chapter 1. Reflecting Dracula: The Undead in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt; Chapter 2. A Species of One: The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles; Chapter 3. Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice; Chapter 4. Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine; PART II. RACE, GENDER AND THE VAMPIRE; Chapter 5. The Madonna and Child: Reevaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice's Forgotten Females
Abstract:
Chapter 6. Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in ControlChapter 7. Lightening "The White Man's Burden": Evolution of the Vampire from the Victorian Racialism of Dracula to the New World Order of I Am Legend; Chapter 8. You're Nothing to Me But Another . . . [White] Vampire": A Study of theRepresentation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema; Chapter 9. She Would Be No Man's Property Ever Again": Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women's Fiction; PART III. NEW READINGS OF THE VAMPIRE
Abstract:
Chapter 10. Blood-Abstinent Vampires and the Women Who Consume ThemChapter 11. "Exactly My Brand of Heroin": Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon; Chapter 12. Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series; Chapter 13. Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-Up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series; Chapter 14. The Politics of Reproduction in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga; Chapter 15. The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+
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