The Global Vampire

Author : Cait Coker,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476637334

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The Global Vampire by Cait Coker,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III Pdf

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

Author : David McNally
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004201576

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Monsters of the Market by David McNally Pdf

"Monsters of the Market" investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining "Frankenstein," Marx s "Capital" and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.

Author : Manuela Dunn Mascetti,Manuela Dunn-Mascetti
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000032467161

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Vampire by Manuela Dunn Mascetti,Manuela Dunn-Mascetti Pdf

This encyclopedic and exquisitely eerie guide is as elegant and menacing as the creature it describes. With nearly 200 photographs and illustrations, this entertaining and erudite collection of myth, folklore, literature and popular culture is seductively priced in its new paperback edition.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Vampires
ISBN : 9781601522092

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Vampire History and Lore by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

Throughout history vampires have been viewed as hideously repellant, strikingly attractive, dangerously evil, and piteously gloomy. This title explores vampire beliefs from the blood sucking beasts of ancient times to the immortal teen heartthrobs of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jean Marigny
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0500300410

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Vampires by Jean Marigny Pdf

The nightmare of the dead rising from their graves and sucking the blood of the living has haunted us since prehistory. Legends, literature and terrifying case histories trace the survival of vampires from antiquity to the gaslit streets of London. From age to age, the same terrifying myth has adapted itself to the beliefs of the time. Today it is kept alive through fiction and the cinema, which have distilled our worst fears and most secret desires. The world of the undead lives on.

Author : Sharon M. Gallagher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476627960

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The Irish Vampire by Sharon M. Gallagher Pdf

 The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century. Three 19th century Irish writers—Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker—used the obscure vampire of folklore in their fiction and developed a universally recognizable figure, culminating in Stoker’s Dracula and the vampire of today’s popular culture. Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker did not set out to transform the vampire of regional folk tales into a global phenomenon. Their personal lives, national concerns and extensive reading were reflected in their writing, striking a chord with readers and recasting the vampire as distinctly Irish. This study traces the genealogy of the modern literary vampire from European mythology through the Irish literature of the 1800s.

Author : Mark Collins Jenkins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781426206665

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Vampire Forensics by Mark Collins Jenkins Pdf

Mark Jenkins’s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. In Vampire Forensics, Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend to tease out the historical truths enshrined in the tales of terror: sherds of Persian pottery depicting blood-sucking demons; the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic archaeologist Matteo Borrini of a 16th-century Venetian grave of a plague victim and suspected vampire; and the Transylvanian castle of "Vlad the Impaler," whose bloodthirsty cruelty remains unsurpassed. Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, psychology, and science sure to engross everyone from Anne Rice’s countless readers to serious students of archaeology and mythology.

Author : Scott G. Mariani
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007342839

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Uprising by Scott G. Mariani Pdf

A new war is dawning...

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476639864

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Vampire Films Around the World by James Aubrey Pdf

Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.

Author : L. J. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Vampires
ISBN : 0340687517

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Secret Vampire by L. J. Smith Pdf

YA. Poppy is dying but a friend's kiss could give her eternal life.

Author : Anna Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684641640

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Fang-Tastic Friends by Anna Wilson Pdf

Author : Dudley Wright
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368916961

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Vampires and Vampirism by Dudley Wright Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Raymond A. Villareal
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316561655

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A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal Pdf

In this ambitious and wildly original debut -- part social-political satire, part international mystery -- a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish. Soon, the U.S. government -- and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church -- must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world. With heightened strength and beauty and a stead diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings," rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society. Soon people are beginning to be "re-created," willingly accepting the risk of death if their bodies can't handle the transformation. As new communities of Gloamings arise, society is divided, and popular Gloaming sites come under threat from a secret terrorist organization. But when a charismatic and wealthy businessman, recently turned, runs for political office -- well, all hell breaks loose. Told from the perspective of key players, including a cynical FBI agent, an audacious campaign manager, and a war veteran turned nurse turned secret operative, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is an exhilarating, genre-bending debut that is as addictive as the power it describes.

Author : Simon Marsden
Publisher : Palazzo Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 0956494285

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Vampires by Simon Marsden Pdf

This hauntingly beautiful book from the master of gothic imagery is the essential guide to the lore and landscapes of the vampire.

Author : Brian Lumley
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429913249

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The Last Aerie by Brian Lumley Pdf

Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father's awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different! Nathan takes up the struggle against the metamorphic vampires, while Nestor, fascinated by the vampires' eerie evil, has become his twin's worst nightmare: a Wamphyri Lord! Harry Keogh's sons have become the bitterest of enemies, each determined to destroy the other. When next they meet, one will surely die! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.