Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film write by Erik Butler. This book was released on 2010. Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature (2010) and a translation with commentary of Regrowth (Vidervuks) by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television write by . This book was released on 2015-09-18. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire write by Simon Bacon. This book was released on . The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Race in the Vampire Narrative
Race in the Vampire Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race in the Vampire Narrative write by . This book was released on 2015-01-01. Race in the Vampire Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Race in the Vampire Narrative unpacks the vampire through a collection of classroom ready original essays that explicitly connect this archetypal outsider to studies in race, ethnicity, and identity. Through essays about the first recorded vampire craze, television shows True Blood, and Being Human, movies like Blade: Trinity and Underworld, to the presentation of vampires of colour in romance novels, graphic novels, on stage and beyond, this text will open doorways to discussions about Otherness in any setting, serving as an alternative way to explore marginality through a framework that welcomes all students into the conversation.
Printing terror
Printing terror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Printing terror write by Michael Goodrum. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Printing terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears over America’s changing sociological landscape. It examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is of interest to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American history.
