The Undead Among Us The Figure Of The Vampire As The Unknown Other And Its Representation In True Blood
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The Undead Among Us The Figure Of The Vampire As The Unknown Other And Its Representation In True Blood
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Author : Felicitas Schott
language : en
Publisher: diplom.de
Release Date : 2018-06-26
The Undead Among Us The Figure Of The Vampire As The Unknown Other And Its Representation In True Blood written by Felicitas Schott and has been published by diplom.de this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Art categories.
Drakul. Nosferatu. Upyr. Vampyre. There have been many names for what we know today as the vampire. For over a century, literature, television, cinema and many other areas in our daily lives cannot be imagined without the appearance of this fictional character. Almost everyone is familiar with the image of the walking undead that creeps out of its coffin at night and sucks the blood out of humans. The undead has always been appealing to its audience. It is the ‘otherness’ of such monsters, their frightful darkness and exoticism that makes them so interesting. This book deals with the figure of the vampire regarded as the ‘unknown other’ and how it is fictionally represented in the American TV series True Blood (2008 - ). Considering both psychoanalytical concepts as well identity theory, the author depicts the literary and cinematographic development of the fictional figure of the vampire since the late nineteenth century, and analyzes different representations of the vampire and its “otherness” as well as their appeal to the audience in the True Blood.
Collision Of Realities
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Author : Lars Schmeink
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-05-29
Collision Of Realities written by Lars Schmeink and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Even though the fantastic (in its most inclusive definition) has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. With its inherent transgressive moment the fantastic allows for an ideal space of the cultural negotiation of political, social and physical boundaries, which should place it at the center of popular cultural research, not as is the case, at its periphery. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms, from fantasy to horror, from fairy tale to science fiction. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of research on the fantastic in Europe so far and by providing a necessary outlook for the future. In the essays current trends, such as the liminality debate, as well as established discourses, as for example on genre theory, are brought together to show interested researchers a network of interdisciplinary (from literary, media and social studies) approaches towards the fantastic.
Open Graves Open Minds
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Author : Sam George
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Open Graves Open Minds written by Sam George and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Collections categories.
This book relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change.--Publisher's description.
We Are The Undead Or Are We Companion A Collection Of Vampire Articles
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Author : Briana Blair
language : en
Publisher: Briana Blair
Release Date : 2011-12-02
We Are The Undead Or Are We Companion A Collection Of Vampire Articles written by Briana Blair and has been published by Briana Blair this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Do you love vampires? Then you’ll love this book. Here you will find topics like: Are you a vampire? What’s the difference between real living vampires and the vampires of legend? Psychic feeding for vampires, vampire quotes, vampire cults, online vampire groups and much more. There is a heavy focus on RLVs or Real Living Vampires, but the content here should be both entertaining and educational to any vampire fan. I have enjoyed both the myth and reality of vampires for most of my life, so now I’m sharing that with you. These articles were originally written for Associated Content or my vampire fan site The Vampire’s Lair. I have compiled these articles within this book as a companion to the original We Are the Undead book, but it works well as a stand-alone volume. I hope you enjoy the articles and that you learn something new.
Vampires Among Us
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Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
language : en
Publisher: Visionary Living, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-09-15
Vampires Among Us written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and has been published by Visionary Living, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Zombies Vampires And Philosophy
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Author : Richard Greene and K Silem Mohammad
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-08
Zombies Vampires And Philosophy written by Richard Greene and K Silem Mohammad and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08 with Social Science categories.
Don't turn around - there's probably one behind you right now. Vampires and zombies are just everywhere. Bram Stoker had no idea what he was starting when he published his vampire novel Dracula in 1897, incidentally digging up and re-animating the word ''undead. Whether it's Twilight, Let the Right One In, True Blood, or the comic book series Thirty Days of Night, vampire stories seem to experience an eternal cycle of death and resurrection, growing more potent, if not more rosy-cheeked, with each successive manifestation. While vampires are suave, sexy, sophisticated, stay up all night, generally have good hair, and often deliver witty one-liners, zombies are just the opposite. Zombies have poor complexions, missing body parts, few social graces, and are conversationally challenged. Yet public fascination with zombies keeps proliferating, along with the popularity of vampires. There are more zombie books, zombie movies, and zombie games than ever before. About the only things vampires and zombies share is that they want to bite us and we are at risk of becoming like them. However, they both confront us with moral and metaphysical issues of life and death. In Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy, an expanded edition of The Undead and Philosophy, twenty-two of our leading thinkers teach us the lessons we can absorb from the various forms of Undeath. ''this is a book worth buying just for the final chapter, which gives us the sensational and hitherto suppressed correspondence of tienne Lavec and Paulie Dori Williams. At long last we have a vital perspective that has been sadly lacking; authentic vampire reactions to the way vampires are depicted in popular culture.
Legends Of Blood
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Author : Wayne Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2006-10-30
Legends Of Blood written by Wayne Bartlett and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Delves into the myths, legends, literature, and history surrounding that ever-frightening and yet strangely seductive creature, the vampire.
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.
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.
Different Blood The Vampire As Alien
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Author : Margaret L. Carter
language : en
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-25
Different Blood The Vampire As Alien written by Margaret L. Carter and has been published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Different blood flows in their veins--but our blood quenches their thirst. From Bram Stoker's 1897 creation of Count Dracula, portrayed as a foreign invader bent on the conquest of England, the literary vampire has symbolized the Other, whether his or her otherness arises from racial, ethnic, sexual, or species difference. Even before the bloodsucking Martians of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, however, popular fiction contained a few vampires who were members of alien species rather than supernatural undead. Even more intriguing than interplanetary invaders are humanoid and quasi-humanoid beings who have evolved to live on Earth among us, often camouflaged as our own kind. The boom in vampire fiction that began in the 1970s engendered a variety of "alien" vampires, many of them portrayed as sympathetic characters. The science fiction vampire is especially suited to the presentation of vampirism as morally neutral rather than inherently evil. Different Blood surveys the literary vampire as alien, whether extra-terrestrial or a different species evolved on Earth, from the mid-1800s to the 1990s, and analyzes the many uses to which science fiction and fantasy authors have put this theme. Their works explore issues of species, race, ecological responsibility, gender, eroticism, xenophobia, parasitism, symbiosis, intimacy, and the bridging of differences. An extensive bibliography lists dozens of novels and short stories on the "vampire as alien" theme, many of which are still in print.