Books written by Simon Bacon
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Vampires from Another World: The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula
Duncan Gibbons (Orion Pictures, 1991) Event Horizon, dir. Paul Anderson (Paramount Pictures, 1997) Ex Machina, dir. Alex Garland (Universal Pictures, 2014) The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, Your Teeth Are in My Neck, dir.
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Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture
Focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In, the book explores the impact of the multifaceted character of the vampire on identity within contemporary Western culture.
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day
... Peggy Day and Susan Gale , Edgar Cayce on the Indigo Children : Understanding Psychic Children ( Virginia Beach : ARE , 2004 ) ; Phyllis M. Atwater , The New Children and Near - Death Experiences ( Rochester : Bear , 2003 ) ...
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To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe
This collection of new essays provides a timely study of how well Star Trek has lived up to its own ideals of inclusivity and equality, and how well prepared it is to boldly go with everyone into the next half century.
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Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media
This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.
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To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe
Broderick, James F. The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References and Themes in the Television Series and Films. Jefferson, nC: McFarland, 2006. Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith.
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Vampires from Another World: The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula
vampires into Cathedral City, Blackhat not only associates himself with the vampires but more closely with the planet, framing his actions as an attempt to restore balance by, if not destroying humanity, certainly returning it to a ...
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The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead
noted by Nina Auerbach, Curtis' Count fits in with other 1970s vampires in being “paragons of emotional complexity and ... Curtis' Van Helsing clearly shows this in the film with a purposeful close-up focusing our attention on his ...
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Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
1995. “The Undead and the Living Dead: Images of Vampires and Zombies in Contemporary Culture.” The Journal of Psychohistory. New York. Vol. 23, Issue. 1: pp. 51–65. Bounds, Lisa N. 2012. “Taming the Vampire.” MA Thesis.
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Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media
... gives sudden voice to “harbingers of anarchy, chaos, death and hell” (deardorff 131), is found in the “difficult stories” (niemi and ellis 2) of children's literature and is characterized by “heavy words lightly thrown” (roberts 1).
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Nosferatu in the 21st Century: A Critical Study
We know that he was buried in unhallowed ground. For all of his kind must rest in the unhallowed ground that nurses them. For one to buried, they must have blood on their hands. It doesn't matter if it was someone else's or their own.
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Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures
... folklore (Trubshaw 2002). In other cases, horror performances employ the “folkloresque.” The folkloresque is a term used by Michael Dylan Foster to describe work that is intended to feel like a piece of folklore but is instead “popular ...
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Transmedia Cultures: A Companion
This volume then will not so much complicate the topic of Transmedia Cultures but reveal the ever increasing levels of entanglement it has within our real-lives and with those we experience in other more imaginative or creative ones ...
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Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
... Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism. Many of her books focus on women's roles in fiction, like her heroine's journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Buffy and the Heroine's Journey. Once a lecturer at San Jose State University, she now ...
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Faith and the Zombie: Critical Essays on the End of the World and Beyond
... Myth and U.S. Politics Since 1900. Nor- man: University of Oklahoma Press. Smith, John, and Thomas Appleton. 1997. “Introduction.” A Mythic Land Apart: Reassess- ing Southerners and Their History, edited by John Smith, John and Thomas ...
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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century
... Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press. 2017. Stapledon, Olaf. 1930. Last and First Men. New York: Dover Publications ...
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
... Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Athens: University of Georgia, 1999. Part IV CULTURAL CATEGORIZATION IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND POSSIBLE.
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The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead
... Walking Dead,” appears The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in The Walking Dead. Gina Wisker is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Bath, supervising doctoral students, Professor 11, University of the Arctic ...
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Faith and the Zombie: Critical Essays on the End of the World and Beyond
Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.
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Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture
This volume offers new readings of key popular texts from Buffy to Let Me In.