The Global Vampire
Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
Donald E Palumbo editor CW Sullivan III editor Cait Coker editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:30th Jan '20
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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.
“This collection offers many layers of what it means to be vampiric and brings a mixture of theories to the discussion; whether you are a student of race, feminism, gender, sexuality, history, hybridity, or nationalism, you will find something here to support your research… This book is both enjoyable and informative; the writing is professional, clear, and interesting. It is not every scholarly book which one can describe as fun and entertaining, but this was both.”—Journal of Popular Culture
- Winner of Lord Ruthven Award for Best Nonfiction—International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 2021 (United States)
ISBN: 9781476675947
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 330g
179 pages