Draculas, vampires, and other undead forms : essays on gender, race, and culture / edited by John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart.
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- Contributor:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- xxii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
- Contents:
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- 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:
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- 9780810866966
- 081086696X
- 9780810869233
- 0810869233
- OCLC:
- 291193754
- Online:
- The John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund Home Page
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