Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | xi, 264 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2790060 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Vampires
- The Ancient Fear
- Brian Aldiss
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The Shape of Vampires
- 2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed
- 3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door
- 4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction
- 5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother
- 6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry
- 7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood
- 8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction
- 9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
- 10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan
- 11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld
- 12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins
- 13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction
- 14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire
- 15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire
- Hollinger Notes
- Works Cited
- Films Cited
- Index
- List of Contributors