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Reading the Vampire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415080132)
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xInsatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.
Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS.
Author: Ken Gelder
ISBN-10: 0415080134
ISBN-13: 9780415080132
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1994
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.10w x 0.52d
Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS.
Author: Ken Gelder
ISBN-10: 0415080134
ISBN-13: 9780415080132
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1994
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.10w x 0.52d
By Ken Gelder
xKen Gelder is Principal Lecturer in English, Media and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester (on leave of absence from the University of Melbourne, Australia).,
Professor of Cultural Studies School of Humanities Griffith University,
Professor of English Literature Open University
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