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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Browning, John Edgar.
• Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
• John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Dracula films--History and criticism.
• Vampire films--History and criticism.
• Vampire films.
• Sex role in motion pictures.
• Racism in motion pictures.
• Culture in motion pictures.
• Dracula films.

Physical Description:

xxii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.

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 Eileen 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. Lüke
• 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: de-coding hybridity and cyberZen goth(ic) in Vampire hunter D (1985) / Wayne Stein and John Edgar Browning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780810866966
• 081086696X
• 9780810869233
• 0810869233

OCLC:

291193754

Online:

The John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund Home Page