Ken 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
Insatiable 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.
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Publicity potential - vampires are always a suppplement topic. Release should coincide with the Tom Cruise vampire film.
Ethnic Vampires: Transylvania and beyond; Part 1 Vampires in Greece: Byron and Polidori; Part 2 Vampires and the Uncanny: Le Fanu´s `carmilla; Part 3 Reading Dracula; Part 4 Vampires and Cinema: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker´s `dracula´; Part 5 Vampires in the (old) New World: Anne Rice´s Vampire Chronicles; Part 6 Vampire Blockbusters: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Brian Aldiss and S.p. Somtow; Part 7 Conclusion;
Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narrative manifestations, placing the vampires in their cultural contexts. The author draws upon films such as Murnau's Nosferatu and books such as Anne Rice's historical vampire chronicles.
Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narrative manifestations, placing the vampires in their cultural contexts. The author draws upon films such as Murnau's Nosferatu and books such as Anne Rice's historical vampire chronicles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Ethnic Vampires: Transylvania and beyond; Part 1 Vampires in Greece: Byron and Polidori; Part 2 Vampires and the Uncanny: Le Fanu's 'carmilla; Part 3 Reading Dracula; Part 4 Vampires and Cinema: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's 'dracula'; Part 5 Vampires in the (old) New World: Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles; Part 6 Vampire Blockbusters: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Brian Aldiss and S.p. Somtow; Part 7 Conclusion;
Klappentext
the anxieties and fascinations of their times--from nineteenth century investmets in travel and tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity and obsessions with sex, to queer identity of the vampire, the association of the vampire with the "global exotic" and current concerns about wayward youth and the family.
