{"product_id":"the-global-vampire-9781476675947","title":"The Global Vampire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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 \u003ci\u003edu monde\u003c\/i\u003e rather than an isolated monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tvi\u003cbr\u003ePreface (and In Memoriam)\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction—Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture (Cait Coker)\t3\u003cbr\u003eThe Americas and Canada\u003cbr\u003eBiting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative\u003cbr\u003e(Candace R. Benefiel)\t11\u003cbr\u003e\"I'll give you blood to drink\": The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials (Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez)\t23\u003cbr\u003eWes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative (Kendra R. Parker\t) 35\u003cbr\u003eThe Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's (Carmilla\u003cbr\u003eNatalie Krikowa)\t48\u003cbr\u003eÉternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec (Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville)\t60\u003cbr\u003eEurope and the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e\"The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!\": Racism, \"True\" Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film (Simon Bacon)\t77\u003cbr\u003eAmid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In (Marie Levesque)\t90\u003cbr\u003eThe Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri \u003cbr\u003eper i vampiri (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)\t104\u003cbr\u003e\"Time is an abyss\": The Role of History in Werner Herzog's \u003cbr\u003eNosferatu (1979) (Thomas Prasch)\t116\u003cbr\u003eThere's Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment \u003cbr\u003ein Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (Karen E. Viars)\t128\u003cbr\u003eAsia and Australia From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire \"Fan\" in Korean Dramas (Cait Coker)\t143\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't adjust your life to mine\": Moon Child, Homoeroticism \u003cbr\u003eand the Vampire as Multifaceted Other (Miranda Ruth Larsen)\t153\u003cbr\u003eAboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality\u003cbr\u003e(Naomi Simone Borwein)\t165\u003cbr\u003e\"In need of vitamin sea\": The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager's Vampires (Phil Fitzsimmons)\t177\u003cbr\u003eGlobalism: Real and Virtual Worlds? \u003cbr\u003eThe Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change \u003cbr\u003eas a Holocaust (Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad)\t189\u003cbr\u003e\"Set to drain\": Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor \u003cbr\u003ein The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Trevor Dodge)\t200\u003cbr\u003eAfterword (Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo)\t211\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t215\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\t219\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t235","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040449954135,"sku":"9781476675947","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476675947.jpg?v=1750946787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-global-vampire-9781476675947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}