Vampires in America - 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 Vampires in America write by Sam Navarre. This book was released on 2011-12-15. Vampires in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a history of vampire lore in America and focuses on its popular culture impact in print and film.
Vampires Are Us
Vampires Are Us - 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 Vampires Are Us write by Margot Adler. This book was released on 2014-03-01. Vampires Are Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of Drawing Down the Moon offers a "literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating” exploration of the enduring allure of vampires (Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger). Author and NPR correspondent Margot Adler found herself newly drawn to vampire novels while sitting vigil at her dying husband’s bedside. Intrigued by the way this ever-evolving myth lets us contemplate mortality, she embarked on a years-long journey of reading hundreds vampire novels—from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic. She began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, the television show Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. From Bram Stoker to Ann Rice; from vampire detective thrillers to lesbian vampire fiction; and from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Twilight and True Blood, Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
American Vampires
American Vampires - 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 American Vampires write by Linda R. Baker. This book was released on 2019-12-15. American Vampires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most people today see vampires as entertaining supernatural creatures popularized by the many book, television, and movie series that abound in popular fiction, but where do these stories originate? Many cultures around the world have tales of undead blood-sucking creatures. Exploring these supernatural beings within the context of American historical accounts and legends will enable students to understand the relationship between the time in which such stories were believed and the actual events that inspired them. Accompanied by full-color images and sidebars with fascinating details, this volume will capture the interest of any student intrigued by vampire stories.
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture - 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 Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture write by William Patrick Day. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories -- from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite -- have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
American Vampires
American Vampires - 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 American Vampires write by Bob Curran. This book was released on 2012-10-22. American Vampires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vampires are much more complex creatures than Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood, or scores of other movies and television shows would have you believe. Even in America. American vampire lore has its roots in the beliefs and fears of the diverse peoples and nationalities that make up our country, and reflects the rich tapestry of their varied perspectives. The vampires that lurk in the American darkness come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can produce some surprising results. Vampires in North Carolina are vastly different from those in South Carolina, and even more different from those in New York State. Moreover, not all of them are human in form, and they can’t necessarily be warded off by the sight of a crucifix or a bulb of garlic. Dr. Bob Curran visits the Louisiana bayous, the back streets of New York City, the hills of Tennessee, the Sierras of California, the deserts of Arizona, and many more locations in a bid to track down the vampire creatures that lurk there. Join him if you dare! This is not Hollywood’s version of the vampire—these entities are real!
