Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture /

Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture /

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Author / Creator:	Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha, 1980- author.
Imprint:	London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ©2019
Description:	ix, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Vampires in popular culture. Vampire films -- United States -- History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism. Vampires in literature. American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism. Vampires on television. American fiction. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American. Vampire films. Vampires in literature. Vampires in popular culture. Vampires on television. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11888168

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ISBN:	1137583762 9781137583765 9781137583772
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.
Summary:	Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781137583772

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