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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.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface (and In Memoriam)
Introduction-Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture (Cait Coker)
The Americas and Canada
Biting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative
(Candace R. Benefiel)
"I'll give you blood to drink": The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials (Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez)
Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative (Kendra R. Parker )
The Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's (Carmilla
Natalie Krikowa)
Éternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec (Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville)
Europe and the Mediterranean
"The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!": Racism, "True" Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film (Simon Bacon)
Amid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In (Marie Levesque)
The Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri
per i vampiri (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)
"Time is an abyss": The Role of History in Werner Herzog's
Nosferatu (1979) (Thomas Prasch)
There's Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment
in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (Karen E. Viars)
Asia and Australia From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire "Fan" in Korean Dramas (Cait Coker)
"Don't adjust your life to mine": Moon Child, Homoeroticism
and the Vampire as Multifaceted Other (Miranda Ruth Larsen)
Aboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality
(Naomi Simone Borwein)
"In need of vitamin sea": The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager's Vampires (Phil Fitzsimmons)
Globalism: Real and Virtual Worlds?
The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change
as a Holocaust (Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad)
"Set to drain": Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor
in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Trevor Dodge)
Afterword (Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo)
About the Contributors
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Cait Coker>/B> is associate professor and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on genre history, women's writing, and the history of women in publishing.Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina.C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.
