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Growing up with vampires : essays on the undead in children's media / edited by Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires in mass media.
- Children's mass media.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk
- Children's media; chronologies and mediums. Children of the night: mainstreaming vampires through children's media / Andrew M. Boylan
- An invitation to a beheading (and another to a birthday bash): encountering Dracula in contemporary gothic metamorphoses books / Jen Baker
- The drawn daughters of Dracula: vampire girlhood in British comics of the 1970s and 1980s / Jack Fennell
- Negotiating femininity and identity in texts for children. Jeepers creepers: the American vampirization of the female, immigrant teacher in vampires don't wear polka dots / Sharon Pajka
- Under her batwings: Jung's shadow aspect as depicted in Monster high and My little pony vampires / Jacquelyn E. Bent
- Metamorphosis of the blood: vampiric femininity in contemporary children's fiction. Chloe Germaine Buckley
- Problematic parenting: tweens and vampire fiction / Leslie J. Ormandy
- Symbolism, meanings and interpretations in texts for children / Dick and Jane and vampires: the interstitial bridge between social imaginary and spirituality / Phil Fitzsimmons
- The dhampir gets his fangs: miscegenation and exogamy in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise / Mark Chekares
- Food for thought: vegetarian vampires in children's reading diets / Jane M. Kubiesa
- Every generation gets the vampire it needs: what can vampire narratives in children's films tell us about childhood in the twenty-first century? / Allison Moore
- Looking back and seeing the future: adult nostalgia and negotiating the future in children's books and films featuring vampires / Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476675527
- 147667552X
- OCLC:
- 1024236578
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