{"product_id":"vampires-race-and-transnational-hollywoods-dale-hudson-9781474423083","title":"Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims' blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods\u003c\/i\u003e, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire's popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes. Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like \u003ci\u003eTrue Blood, Twilight, Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Strain\u003c\/i\u003e, classics such as Universal's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDrácula\u003c\/i\u003e, and miscegenation melodramas like \u003ci\u003eThe Cheat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sheik\u003c\/i\u003e, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dale Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474423086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474423083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Dale Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088349016319,"sku":"9781474423083","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c175bafa-894d-49f8-9cf1-553ce95c47c5.jpg?v=1769104354","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vampires-race-and-transnational-hollywoods-dale-hudson-9781474423083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}