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Reading the Vampire (Hardcover, New)
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Reading the Vampire (Hardcover, New)
Series: Popular Fictions Series
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Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the
undead, uncharted Transylvanian wildernesses and a morbid
fascination with the "other: " the legend of the vampire continues
to haunt the popular imagination.
"Reading the Vampire" examines the creature in all its various
manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates
vampire narratives in literature and in film--from early vampire
stories such as Polidori's "The Vampire," J. Sheridan Le Fanu's
"lesbian vampire" tale "Carmilla" and Bram Stoker's "Dracula," the
most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American
vampire blockbusters by Stephen King, the vampire chronicles of
Anne Rice, "post-Ceausescu" vampire narratives, and films such as
F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's
Dracula,"
"Reading the" "Vampire" embeds vampires in their cultural
contexts, showing how vampire narratives reproduce the anxieties
and fascinations of their times--from nineteenth century investmets
in travel and tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity
and obsessions with sex, to queer identity of the vampire, the
association of the vampire with the "global exotic" and current
concerns about wayward youth and the family.
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