"Vampires in the New World" surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction, classic horror films, film noir, science fiction, horror fiction, blaxploitation, and the recent "Twilight" and "True Blood" series in order to demonstrate how cultural, scientific, and ideological trends are reflected and refracted through the figure of the vampire.

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