{"product_id":"the-transmedia-vampire-9781476675749","title":"The Transmedia Vampire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from \u003ci\u003eMonster High\u003c\/i\u003e have been made more real through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the vampire world, blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as author, reader, player and consumer. These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tvii\u003cbr\u003eForeword: We Are, All of Us, Renfields\u003cbr\u003eJohn Edgar Browning\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSimon Bacon\t3\u003cbr\u003ePart I—Dracula: Adaptations and Re-Creations\u003cbr\u003eWe Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula Megatext\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\t20\u003cbr\u003e\"Better Parts\": Redemptive Portrayals of Count Dracula as Vlad the Impaler in Selected Film Adaptions of Stoker's Dracula\u003cbr\u003eWayne Derek Pigeon-Coote\t35\u003cbr\u003e\"I've crossed oceans of versions to find you\": Remediating Mina from Novel to Screen in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)\u003cbr\u003eCathleen Allyn Conway\t47\u003cbr\u003ePart II—Across Mediums, Platforms and Levels of Engagement\u003cbr\u003eByzantium Stage to Screen\u003cbr\u003eGina Wisker\t60\u003cbr\u003ePixel Parasites: The Virtual Vampire as Enemy, Ally and Self in Video Games\u003cbr\u003eShawn Edrei\t76\u003cbr\u003eVampire as Doll: Transformations of Meaning Through Play in the Vampirina and Draculaura (Monster High) Franchises\u003cbr\u003eDerek Newman-Stille\t88\u003cbr\u003e\"Do Vampires Get Their Periods?\": The Carmilla Web Series and the Politics of Bleeding Women\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Heller-Nicholas\t103\u003cbr\u003ePart III—Transnational Transmedia\u003cbr\u003eVampire Tourism: Transmedia Narratives, Cultural Histories and Locating the Undead\u003cbr\u003eLorna Piatti-Farnell\t120\u003cbr\u003eThinking in Connections: A.A. Carr's Eye Killers and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu\u003cbr\u003eSvetlana Seibel\t134\u003cbr\u003eFrom Revenants to Vampires: The Transmedia Evolution of the Jiangshi\u003cbr\u003eKatarzyna Ancuta\t146\u003cbr\u003ePart IV—Interventions, Fandom, Ownership\u003cbr\u003eTransmedia Interventions and Palimpsestuous Relations: Carmilla Meets Carmen Maria Machado\u003cbr\u003eNatalie Wilson\t162\u003cbr\u003eThe Originals and Family History Two-Fold: Caught Between Two Worlds\u003cbr\u003eVerena Bernardi\t174\u003cbr\u003eTransmedia Vampire Stories and Their Consumers in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles\u003cbr\u003eLaura Davidel\t187\u003cbr\u003eFirst-Person Gothic: Anne Rice, Vampirism, Authorship and Identity\u003cbr\u003eEvan Hayles Gledhill\t201\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t217\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t221","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040449036631,"sku":"9781476675749","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476675749.jpg?v=1750946785","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-transmedia-vampire-9781476675749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}