Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods

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by Dale Hudson

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Horror

Keywords

horror, B-movies, globalization, vampire

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Traditions in American Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 296 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-2308-3

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Book Presentation:
A consideration of vampire film production through the lens of transnational cinema.

The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims’ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises.

In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood’s vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire’s popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes.

Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood, Twilight, Underworld and The Strain, classics such as Universal’s Dracula and Drácula, and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.

About the Author:
Dr Dale Hudson is Associate Professor and Curator of Film and New Media at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Press Reviews:
Hudson is building a reputation as a leading scholar on culture and globalization, and he here uses the figure of the vampire to explore issues of postcolonialism, migratory movements, and social difference...he has produced a fresh and original contribution to scholarship that should be of great interest to scholars interested in vampire media, transnational approaches to Hollywood, and the politics of race representation.'– Iain Robert Smith, This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2018)

Hudson is building a reputation as a leading scholar on culture and globalization, and he here uses the figure of the vampire to explore issues of postcolonialism, migratory movements, and social difference...he has produced a fresh and original contribution to scholarship that should be of great interest to scholars interested in vampire media, transnational approaches to Hollywood, and the politics of race representation.– Iain Robert Smith, This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2018)

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press