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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mutch, Deborah
• Deborah Mutch

Titel

The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Why are we surrounded by vampires in the twenty-first century? From the global phenomena of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse , through films such as Underworld and Blade , television series such as The Vampire Diaries and Being Human , to video games like Bloodrayne and Legacy of Kain , the reader, viewer and player has never had so many vampires to choose from. This collection considers the importance of the current flurry of vampires for our sense of human identity. Vampires have long been read as bodies through which our sense of ourselves has been reflected back to us. The essays offer readings of the modern vampire as a complex consideration of our modern human selves. Now that we no longer see the vampire as essentially evil, what does that say about us? 04 02 Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction 'A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas': the Vampire in English and American Literature; D.Mutch Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text; K.Scott Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire; B.Jones 'Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?': Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction; H.Priest Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight Series; S.Heaton Whiteness and the Contemporary Vampire in Film and Television; E.Kirkland The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victim Hood and Post-Memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire; S.Bacon Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other; C.Reed Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series; Y.Maurer The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice; V.Amador Matt Haig's The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age; D.Mutch References 02 02 Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood , as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire , and television programmes such as Being Human and Buffy the Vampire Slayer . 13 02 DEBORAH MUTCH is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has recently become interested in the modern Gothic and has published an article on the Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse series in Critical Survey . She has also published widely on fin-de-siècle British socialist fiction. 16 02 Fan-orientated publications: Jones: TOUCHED BY A VAMPIRE; Random House, 2009 Regin: TWILIGHT AND HISTORY; Wiley, 2010 Bardola: THE TWILIGHT PHENOMENON; Piccadilly Press, 2009 The 'new' vampire in academic publications: Housel & Wisnewski (eds): TWILIGHT AND PHILOSOPHY; Wiley, 2009 Irwin, Dunn & Housel (eds): TRUE BLOOD AND PHILOSOPHY; Wiley, 2010 Wilson: SEDUCED BY TWILIGHT; MacFarland & Co, 2011 Harman (ed): TWILIGHT; publisher and release date unknown Spooner: POST-MILLENNIAL GOTHIC: COMEDY, ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF HAPPY GOTHIC; Continuum, release date unknown. Other recent publications on the vampire take Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an end point, therefore are now quite dated: Williamson: THE LURE OF THE VAMPIRE: GENDER, FICTION AND FANDOM FROM BRAM STOKER TO BUFFY; Wallflower, 2005 Beresford: FROM DEMONS TO DRACULA: THE CREATION OF THE MODERN VAMPIRE MYTH; Reaktion, 2008 Kane: THE CHANGING VAMPIRE OF FILM AND TELEVISION: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE GROWTH OF A GENRE; McFarlane, 2006 19 02 Academic analysis of the 'new' vampire is in its infancy, therefore this project will be at the vanguard of work considering seriously the importance of this readjustment of the Gothic and the relevance to the social and cultural atmosphere of its production Combines essays on fiction, film and television, including popular franchises such as Stephanie Meyers' Twilight saga, Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse ( True Blood ) series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and general young adult gothic fiction and film/television productions Concentrates on how the modern vampire is a role or psychic space that is actively sought, even sympathised with and desired; a late-20th and early-21st century phenomenon differing vastly from what we see in Bram Stoker's Dracula or the vampire films of the 1930s-50s 31 02 A collection of essays considering the cultural significance of the modern vampire 08 02 'A truly important collection in Gothic and vampire studies, as well as for students and analysts of modern fiction, films, and television.' - Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, USA