New vampire cinema / Ken Gelder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelder, Ken, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampire films--History and criticism.

Vampire films.

Physical Description:

ix, 155 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012.

Summary:

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining.

Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer - films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions.

New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust), South Korea (Thirst), New Zealand (Perfect Creature), Australia (Daybreakers), and elsewhere. In a series of exhilarating readings, Gelder determines what is at stake when the cinematic vampire and the modern world are made to encounter one another - where the new, the remake and the sequel find the vampire struggling to survive the past, the present and, in some cases, the distant future. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Inauthentic Vampires x

Bram Stoker's Dracula 1

Shadow of the Vampire 9

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 15

Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned 19

2 Our Vampires, Our Neighbours 28

Frostbitten, Let the Right One In and Let Me In 32

Night Watch and Day Watch 43

3 Citational Vampires 50

Irma Vep 51

Vampire Hunter D: Blood Lust and Blood: The Last Vampire 58

Thirst 67

4 Vampires in the Americas 72

Nadja, The Addiction, Habit, Vampire in Brooklyn 75

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse 83

Cronos 92

The From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy, the John Carpenter's Vampires trilogy 97

5 Diminishing Vampires 105

Blade, Blade II and Blade: Trinity 107

Underworld, Underworld: Evolution and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 115

Ultraviolet, The Breed, Perfect Creature, Daybreakers 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-152) and index.

ISBN:

9781844574414

1844574415

9781844574407

1844574407

OCLC:

795856946