The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World

ISBN-13: 9781476675947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 251 str.

Cait Coker; Donald E. Palumbo; C. W. Sullivan III

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Acknowledgments vi
Preface (and In Memoriam) 1
Introduction—Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture (Cait Coker) 3
The Americas and Canada
Biting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative
(Candace R. Benefiel) 11
"I'll give you blood to drink": The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials (Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez) 23
Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative (Kendra R. Parker ) 35
The Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's (Carmilla
Natalie Krikowa) 48
Éternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec (Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville) 60
Europe and the Mediterranean
"The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!": Racism, "True" Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film (Simon Bacon) 77
Amid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In (Marie Levesque) 90
The Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri
per i vampiri (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) 104
"Time is an abyss": The Role of History in Werner Herzog's
Nosferatu (1979) (Thomas Prasch) 116
There's Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment
in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (Karen E. Viars) 128
Asia and Australia From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire "Fan" in Korean Dramas (Cait Coker) 143
"Don't adjust your life to mine": Moon Child, Homoeroticism
and the Vampire as Multifaceted Other (Miranda Ruth Larsen) 153
Aboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality
(Naomi Simone Borwein) 165
"In need of vitamin sea": The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager's Vampires (Phil Fitzsimmons) 177
Globalism: Real and Virtual Worlds?
The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change
as a Holocaust (Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad) 189
"Set to drain": Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor
in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Trevor Dodge) 200
Afterword (Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo) 211
About the Contributors 215
Works Cited 219
Index 235