The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World

The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
ISBN-10
1476637334
ISBN-13
9781476637334
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
251
Language
English
Published
2020-01-10
Publisher
McFarland
Authors
Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, Cait Coker

Description

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.

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