The vampire film : undead cinema /

The vampire film : undead cinema /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Wallflower, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Short cuts ; 48 Short cuts (London, England) ; 48.
Subject:	Vampire films -- History and criticism. Vampire films. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11207297

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Varying Form of Title:	Undead cinema
ISBN:	0231850034 9780231850032 9780231162012 0231162014
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-138) and index. Includes filmography (pages 130-133). English. Print version record.
Summary:	This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organized by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is invariably about sex and the vexed human relationship with technology, and that the vampire is always an overdetermined body condensing what a culture considers other. This volume includes in-depth studies of films including Powell's A Fool There Was, Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, Cronenberg's Rabid, Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, and Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.
Other form:	Print version: 9780231162012 0231162014

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Vampire cinema
Vampire sex
Vampire technology
Vampire otherness
Code : vampirising genre.