Reading the vampire /
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| Author / Creator: | Gelder, Ken, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 161 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Popular fictions series Popular fiction series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11116424 |
| Summary: | Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.<br> Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's `lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, `post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula.<br> Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the `queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 161 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-156) and index. |
| ISBN: | 020313205X 9780203132050 9780415080125 0415080126 9780415080132 0415080134 9786610335763 6610335761 1134895348 9781134895342 1280335769 9781280335761 |