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Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

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Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents
  • Introduction: 'something from the vampire's point of view'
  • Secrets and lies : postmodern undeath in the 1970s
  • Family values, apocalyptic plagues, and yuppie undeath in the 1980s
  • Gothic double vision at the Fin-de-Millennium
  • Fundamentalism, hybridity, and remapping the vampire body
  • Vampire intimacy, profusion, and rewriting undeath
Isbn
9781137583772
Instance
Label
Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture
Title
Postmodern vampires
Title remainder
film, fiction, and popular culture
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Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead
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N$T
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1980-
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Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha
Dewey number
306.40973
Index
index present
LC call number
E169.12
LC item number
.N54 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Vampires in popular culture
  • Popular culture
  • Vampire films
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
  • Vampires in literature
  • American fiction
  • American fiction
  • Vampires on television
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Popular culture
  • American fiction
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
  • Vampire films
  • Vampires in literature
  • Vampires in popular culture
  • Vampires on television
  • United States
Label
Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: 'something from the vampire's point of view' -- Secrets and lies : postmodern undeath in the 1970s -- Family values, apocalyptic plagues, and yuppie undeath in the 1980s -- Gothic double vision at the Fin-de-Millennium -- Fundamentalism, hybridity, and remapping the vampire body -- Vampire intimacy, profusion, and rewriting undeath
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1098280474
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unknown
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9781137583772
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computer
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rdamedia
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com.springer.onix.9781137583772
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unknown sound
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remote
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(OCoLC)1098280474
Label
Postmodern vampires : film, fiction, and popular culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: 'something from the vampire's point of view' -- Secrets and lies : postmodern undeath in the 1970s -- Family values, apocalyptic plagues, and yuppie undeath in the 1980s -- Gothic double vision at the Fin-de-Millennium -- Fundamentalism, hybridity, and remapping the vampire body -- Vampire intimacy, profusion, and rewriting undeath
Control code
1098280474
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (1 volume)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781137583772
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
com.springer.onix.9781137583772
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1098280474

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