Loving Vampires - Our Undead Obsession

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

One.¿Vampires

Two.¿Seducers

Three.¿Genders

Four.¿Monsters

Five.¿Psychics

Six.¿Slayers

Seven.¿Narratives

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Tom Pollard is a writer/filmmaker and professor at National University's Department of Social Sciences. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Pollard
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2016
• EAN: 9780786497782
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-9778-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, Films, cinema, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Vampires