The Global Vampire

Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World

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Sous la direction de Cait Coker

Type

Essays

Sujet

Genre > Horror

Mots Clés

vampire, global

Année d'édition

2020

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Collection

Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 251 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-7594-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Cait Coker is associate professor and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on genre history, women’s writing, and the history of women in publishing.

Revue de Presse:
• Lord Ruthven Award — International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

• "This collection offers many layers of what it means to be vampiric and brings a mixture of theories to the discussion; whether you are a student of race, feminism, gender, sexuality, history, hybridity, or nationalism, you will find something here to support your research… This book is both enjoyable and informative; the writing is professional, clear, and interesting. It is not every scholarly book which one can describe as fun and entertaining, but this was both."—Journal of Popular Culture

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