The Transmedia Vampire : Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires in mass media.

Mass media--Technological innovations.

Mass media.

Convergence (Telecommunication).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more "real" through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the "vampire world," blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as "author," "reader," "player" and "consumer." These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Foreword: We Are, All of Us, Renfields

Introduction

Part I: Dracula: Adaptations and Re-Creations

We Are Dracula

"Better Parts"

"I've crossed oceans of versions to find you"

Part II: Across Mediums, Platforms and Levels of Engagement

Byzantium Stage to Screen

Pixel Parasites

Vampire as Doll

"Do Vampires Get Their Periods?"

Part III: Transnational Transmedia

Vampire Tourism

Thinking in Connections

From Revenants to Vampires

Part IV: Interventions, Fandom, Ownership

Transmedia Interventions and Palimpsestuous Relations

The Originals and Family History Two-Fold

Transmedia Vampire Stories and Their Consumers in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles

First-Person Gothic

Interventions, Fandom, Ownership

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Bacon, Simon The Transmedia Vampire

ISBN:

9781476643359