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Vampire Films Around the World - Essays on the Cinematic Undead of Sixteen Cultures

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Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night,
among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.

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Table of Contents

Introduction (James Aubrey)

Australia

Children of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Aristocrats

and Outback Vampires (Graeme A. ­Wend-Walker)

Canada

A Monstrous Showing: Movement and Deformed Discourse

in Guy Maddin's Vampire Ballet Film Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Lorna Hutchison)

China

The Hong Kong Vampire Returns: Nostalgia, Pastiche

and Politics in Rigor Mortis (Fontaine Lien)

Germany

Nosferatu's Daughters: Radical Feminism, ­Lesbo-Vampirism

and Fluid Identities in Dennis Gansel's Wir sind die Nacht

(We Are the Night) (Kai-Uwe Werbeck)

India

Chutney Vampires: Contextualizing Bollywood's Undead

Cinema (Anurag Chauhan)

Iran

Reclaiming the Marginalized Female Body in Ana Lily

Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (U. Melissa Anyiwo)

Ireland and

Creating an Irish Neomyth: Byzantium's Feminist Vampires (James Aubrey)

Italy

Dario Argento's Dracula 3D: History, Genre and the Politics of Camp

(Vincent Piturro)

Japan

The Intertextuality of Moon Child: How Japanese Popular Culture Molds and Interprets Gender and the Vampire (Jade Lum)

Korea

Blood, Dust and the Black Universe: From Asia Extreme to the Vampire ­World-Image in Thirst, The Wailing and the New Korean Vampire Horror Cinema (David John Boyd)

Mexico

The Craft of Delicacy in Cronos: Rethinking Vampire Films

in Latin America (Roberto ­Forns-Broggi)

Morocco and

Only Lovers Left Alive: Expat Vampires and ­Post-Imperial

Cosmopolitanism (Wendolyn Weber)

New Zealand

"Don't ... don't believe the hype!" Vampiric Evolution

and What We Do in the Shadows (Charles Hoge)

Serbia

Vampire Privilege: Class, Gender and Sex in Serbian

Metaphysical Horror (Tatjana Aleksi¿)

Sweden

Unqueering Child Vampire Love in Let the Right One

(James Aubrey)

Museological Horror in Ganja and Hess and Da Sweet Blood

of Jesus (Cheryl D. Edelson)

"It's more like a disease": Compensatory Masculinities and Intersectional "Otherness" in The Transfiguration (Cain Miller)

Filmography

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index


About the author

James Aubrey is a professor of world literature and cinema studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His previous publications include essays on British and Indian literatures and two other books about John Fowles. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Product details

Assisted by James Aubrey (Editor), Aubrey James (Editor)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.10.2020
 
EAN 9781476676739
ISBN 978-1-4766-7673-9
No. of pages 330
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
Weight 435 g
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Film: styles & genres, Vampires, Film: styles and genres

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