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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.
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Introduction
Part I: Towns and Cities1. 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 OriginalsPart II: Environments6. 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
Martin9. 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: Ideologies12. 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
Info autore
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).