The Media Vampire
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The Media Vampire
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Author : Andrew M. Boylan
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-06-04
The Media Vampire written by Andrew M. Boylan and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-04 with Reference categories.
From 18th Century poetry up to modern 3D cinema, the vampire has developed a genre in its own right. Leaving behind its roots in phantasmagoria and horror, taking in romance, action and adventure, as well as flights of science fiction fantasy and political allegory. The vampire is a part of all these fields of artistry and beyond them, a melting pot of imagination and invention that has captivated audiences around the world. In the first part of this volume, Andrew M. Boylan - author of the famous vampire blog Taliesin Meets the Vampires, looks at the genesis of the vampire genre from Ossenfelder's poem Der Vampir to Bram Stoker's seminal novel Dracula. The second part of the book spreads eclectically out from Dracula, just as the genre spread, taking in some famous kissing cousins of the genre as well as looking at the vampire's changing relationship with the divine and following the toothsome bloodsuckers out into space.
The Transmedia Vampire
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Author : Simon Bacon
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-02-18
The Transmedia Vampire written by Simon Bacon and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more "real" through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the "vampire world," blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as "author," "reader," "player" and "consumer." These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.
Growing Up With Vampires
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Author : Simon Bacon
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Growing Up With Vampires written by Simon Bacon and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.
Vampires Unearthed
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Author : Martin V. Riccardo
language : en
Publisher: Scholarly Title
Release Date : 1983
Vampires Unearthed written by Martin V. Riccardo and has been published by Scholarly Title this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Social Science categories.
The Awakening
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Author : L. J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Awakening written by L. J. Smith and has been published by Hodder Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Brothers categories.
Elena's discovers her exciting new boyfriend is actually a vampire.
The Global Vampire
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Author : Cait Coker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-01-10
The Global Vampire written by Cait Coker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Vampire Culture
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Author : Maria Mellins
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-08-01
Vampire Culture written by Maria Mellins and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Design categories.
Unique and exciting, this ethnographic study is the first to address a little-known subculture, which holds a fascination for many. The first decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever increasing fixation with vampires, from the recent spate of phenomenally successful books, films, and television programmes, to the return of vampire-like style on the catwalk. Amidst this hype, there exists a small, dedicated community that has been celebrating their interest in the vampire since the early 1990s. The London vampire subculture is an alternative lifestyle community of people from all walks of life and all ages, from train drivers to university lecturers, who organise events such as fang fittings, gothic belly dancing, late night graveyard walks, and 'carve your own tombstone'. Mellins presents an extraordinary account of this fascinating subculture, which is largely unknown to most people. Through case study analysis of the female participants, Vampire Culture investigates women's longstanding love affair with the undead, and asks how this fascination impacts on their lives, from fiction to fashion. Vampire Culture includes photography from community member and professional photographer SoulStealer, and is an essential read for students and scholars of gender, film, television, media, fashion, culture, sociology and research methods, as well as anyone with an interest in vampires, style subcultures, and the gothic.
The Vampire
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Author : Thomas M. Bohn
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-09-01
The Vampire written by Thomas M. Bohn and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-01 with Social Science categories.
“An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.”—Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.
Bitten By Twilight
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Author : Melissa A. Click
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Bitten By Twilight written by Melissa A. Click and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Aufsatzsammlung categories.
"This lively collection of essays explores the narrative riches of the Twilight stories themselves even as it looks seriously at the ways they have been marketed and taken up both by their passionate fans and by critics who see them as evidence of a range of cultural and political problems."---Janice Radway, Author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature; Professor of Communication Studies/Rhetoric and Gender Studies and American Studies, Northwestern University. --
Vampires And Zombies
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Author : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Vampires And Zombies written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Social Science categories.
The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the zeitgeist. As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Of all monsters, vampires and zombies seem to be the trendiest--the most regularly incarnate of the undead and the monsters most frequently represented in the media and pop culture. Moreover, both figures have experienced radical reinterpretations. If in the past vampires were evil, blood-sucking exploiters and zombies were brainless victims, they now have metamorphosed into kinder and gentler blood-sucking vampires and crueler, more relentless, flesh-eating zombies. Although the portrayals of both vampires and zombies can be traced back to specific regions and predate mass media, the introduction of mass distribution through film and game technologies has significantly modified their depiction over time and in new environments. Among other topics, contributors discuss zombies in Thai films, vampire novels of Mexico, and undead avatars in horror videogames. This volume--with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds--explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures.