Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty First - Centur

This book offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America, and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. It will benefit scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies, and urban and environmental studies.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Towns and Cities
1. Forks: Exploited Reservations, Ongoing Subjugation and Indigenous Historicisation-The Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels
2. Chicago: Some Girls White-Taking the "Urban" Out of Urban Fantasy in the Chicagoland Vampires Series
3. New York City: Bloodlines and Skylines-Vampires, Colonisation, and Gentrification in New York City
4. Hollywood: Vampires in Hollywood
5. Louisiana: True Blood and The Originals
Part II: Environments
6. Carnival-Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore
7. Suburbia: Blood in da 'Burbs'
8. Urban Decay: "He Could be the Boy Next Door..."-Urban Decay and Race in Martin
9. Drifters: Vagrant Vampires-Bloodsuckers in America's Arteries
10. Borderlands: "From Here to Modernity"-The Heterotopic Meaning of the Vampires in Dusk till Dawn (Series 3)
11. Winterlands: Hideous Winter-Vampires, Violence and Snow in American Screen Horror
Part III: Ideologies
12. The Margins: Boardwalk Vampire-Staking a Claim to the Edges of the American Nightmare
13. The Folk-A Psychogeography of the Dead: American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind
14. The Old South: "No One Likes to Reminisce About the Old Slave Days": Romanticizing the Old South, Confederate Vampires, and Transatlantic Slavery in Twenty-First Century Vampire Media
15. Capitalism: Vampire Capitalism-Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers
16. The Future?: A Future America-Possible Topographies of a Future Vampiric America in Stake Land (2010) and Crimson Winter (2013)
Index

About the author

Simon Bacon is a writer and independent scholar based in Poznä, Poland. He has written and edited over thirty books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023) and Future Folk Horror (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Simon (Independent Scholar) Bacon
• Assisted by: Simon Bacon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032251394
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225139-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Advances in Horror
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, NATURE / Ecology, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Humanities, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Social impact of environmental issues, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, The Americas, Human Geography, Urban communities, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism