The lure of the vampire : gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy / Milly Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Milly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampire films--History and criticism.

Vampire films.

Vampires in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.

Summary:

The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long. Over one hundred years after Bram Stoker's influential novel was published, the vampire is as ubiquitous as ever in popular culture, in films such as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Interview With the Vampire (1994), the Blade trilogy (1998-2004), Underworld (2003), Van Helsing (2004) and particularly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television series spin-off from a film, and Angel, its own spin-off. Milly Williamson examines these phenomena and looks at the issues of gender (of vampires and of vampire fans), the modern portrayal of vampires and their 'others', the nature of identity and identification, and the fans themselves.

Contents:

Gender and the Dracula: What's at Stake? 5

Vampire Transformations: Gothic Melodrama, Sympathy and the Self 29

Fans Re-reading the Vampire: Issues of Gender and the Pleasures of Pathos 51

The Predicament of the Vampire and the Slayer: Gothic melodrama in modern America 76

Vampire Fandom: Rebels Without a Cause? Theorising Fandom in the Field of Cultural Production 97

Vampire Fandom in the Field of Cultural Production: A Vampire Fan Club Case Study 119

Donning Fangs: Gender, the Vampire and Dressing the Self 142

Rewriting the Vampire: Gender, Sexuality and Fan Fiction 164

Conclusion - The Vampire and the Self: the Dilemmas of the Dead and the Realm of the Possible 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-211) and index.

ISBN:

190476441X

1904764401

OCLC:

57485153