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Title Draculas, vampires, and other undead forms : essays on gender, race, and culture / edited by John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791.43675 D782 2009    ---  Available
Description xxii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tackling race, gender, and modes of narration in America. Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the complexities of the classic horror film sequel / Gary D. Rhodes -- The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) cultural revolution / Paul R. Lehman and John Edgar Browning -- The compulsions of real/reel serial killers and vampires: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Blood, lust, and the fe/male narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and the novel (1897) / Lisa Nystrom -- The borg as vampire in Star Trek: the next generation (1987-1994) and Star Trek: first contact (1996): an uncanny reflection / Justin Everett -- When women kill: undead imagery in the cinematic portrait of Aileen Wuornos / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Working through change and xenophobia in Europe. Return ticket to Transylvania: relations between historical reality and vampire fiction / Santiago Lucendo -- Racism and the vampire: the anti-Slavic premise of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) / Jimmie Cain -- The grateful un-dead: Count Dracula and the transnational counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) / Paul Newland -- Nosferatu the vampyre (1979) as a legacy of romanticism / Martina G. Luke -- Imperialism, hybridity, and cross-cultural fertilization in Asia. "Death and the maiden": the Pontianak as excess in Malay popular culture / Andrew Hock-Soon Ng -- Becoming-Death: the Lollywood gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz's Zinda Laash (1967, Dracula in Pakistan (US title), 1967) / Sean Moreland and Summer Pervez -- Modernity as crisis: Goeng si and vampires in Hong Kong cinema / Dale Hudson -- Enter the Dracula: the silent screams and cultural crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema / Wayne Stein -- Identity crisis: imperialist vampires in Japan? / Nicholas Schlegel -- The western Eastern: decoding hybridity and cyberZen goth(ic) in Vampire hunter D (1985) / Wayne Stein and John Edgar Browning.
Subject Dracula films -- History and criticism.
Vampire films -- History and criticism.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Racism in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Added Author Browning, John Edgar.
Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
ISBN 9780810866966 (hardback : alk. paper)
081086696X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780810869233 (e-book)
0810869233 (e-book)

 
    
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