The Media Vampire

Author : Andrew M. Boylan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781471764288

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The Media Vampire by Andrew M. Boylan Pdf

From 18th Century poetry up to modern 3D cinema, the vampire has developed a genre in its own right. Leaving behind its roots in phantasmagoria and horror, taking in romance, action and adventure, as well as flights of science fiction fantasy and political allegory. The vampire is a part of all these fields of artistry and beyond them, a melting pot of imagination and invention that has captivated audiences around the world. In the first part of this volume, Andrew M. Boylan - author of the famous vampire blog Taliesin Meets the Vampires, looks at the genesis of the vampire genre from Ossenfelder's poem Der Vampir to Bram Stoker's seminal novel Dracula. The second part of the book spreads eclectically out from Dracula, just as the genre spread, taking in some famous kissing cousins of the genre as well as looking at the vampire's changing relationship with the divine and following the toothsome bloodsuckers out into space.

Author : Violet Fenn
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526776631

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A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture by Violet Fenn Pdf

An exploration of the continuing appeal of vampires in cultural and social history. Our enduring love of vampires—the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy—has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror stories. Even when monstrous teeth are sinking into pale, helpless throats—especially then—vampires are sexy. But why? In A History Of The Vampire In Popular Culture, author Violet Fenn takes the reader through the history of vampires in “fact” and fiction, their origins in mythology and literature, and their enduring appeal on TV and film. We’ll delve into the sexuality--and sexism--of vampire lore, as well as how modern audiences still hunger for a pair of sharp fangs in the middle of the night.

Author : Cait Coker,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Zoraida Córdova,Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Imprint
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250230003

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Vampires Never Get Old by Zoraida Córdova,Natalie C. Parker Pdf

"Boundary-pushing... Stories that stake a new claim on old tropes." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices in this bestselling anthology! In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out—and going out for their first kill—and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire—and a revolution on the page. Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, and Kayla Whaley. An Imprint Book "Vampire fans, sink your teeth into this satisfying collection." —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Melissa A. Click,Jennifer Stevens Aubrey,Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : 1433108941

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Bitten by Twilight by Melissa A. Click,Jennifer Stevens Aubrey,Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz Pdf

"This lively collection of essays explores the narrative riches of the Twilight stories themselves even as it looks seriously at the ways they have been marketed and taken up both by their passionate fans and by critics who see them as evidence of a range of cultural and political problems."---Janice Radway, Author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature; Professor of Communication Studies/Rhetoric and Gender Studies and American Studies, Northwestern University. --

Author : Thomas M. Bohn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789202939

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The Vampire by Thomas M. Bohn Pdf

“An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.”—Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476643359

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The Transmedia Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

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.

Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578593507

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The Vampire Book by J Gordon Melton Pdf

The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031362538

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Author : Antony Bateman,Peter Bennett,Sarah Casey Benyahia,Peter Wall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136858048

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A2 Media Studies by Antony Bateman,Peter Bennett,Sarah Casey Benyahia,Peter Wall Pdf

Developing key topics in depth and introducing students to the notion of independent study, this full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through the transition from AS to A2 and is the perfect guide for the new WJEC A2 Media Studies syllabus. Individual chapters, written by experienced teachers and examiners cover the following key areas: • Introduction: From AS to A2 • 1. Key Concepts: genre, narrative, representation, audience • 2. Developing Textual Analysis • 3. Theoretical Perspectives • 4. Passing MS4: Text, Industry and Audience • 5. Passing MS3: Media Investigation and Production • Epilogue Specially designed to be user-friendly, A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC includes activities, key terms, case studies, sample exam questions and over 120 full colour images.

Author : Joe Garden,Janet Ginsburg,Chris Pauls,Anita Serwacki,Scott Sherman
Publisher : Villard
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780345516640

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The New Vampire's Handbook by Joe Garden,Janet Ginsburg,Chris Pauls,Anita Serwacki,Scott Sherman Pdf

Being turned into a vampire is the easy part. Actually becoming a vampire is far more difficult. In today’s world of vampire-obsessed pop culture, misinformation abounds. A newly turned vampire who looks to movies and novels for answers to everlasting life’s questions will inevitably be reduced to a smoldering pile of dust. So whom can you, a neophyte immortal, trust to provide reliable information and proven strategies for leading your best and bloodiest existence? The Vampire Miles Proctor, editor of The New Vampire’s Handbook. In this definitive guide, the newly turned will find • a head-to-toe look at your vampiric body: how to harness your new powers to dispatch mortal enemies, maintain your fangs, and embrace your vampirosexuality • methods for luring prey, faking your way through meals, approaching other vampires, and creating a four-hundred-year financial plan • tips on acting your “age,” behaving appropriately if you see a human you knew decades ago, and dealing with epic vampire feuds • essential advice for blending in with the masses, from finding a coven to avoiding the media (and mirrors) to staying on top of the latest fashion trends • the joy of scrapbooking Plus helpful online resources, a glyph guide, renovation instructions for emergency lairs, a Ruling Families directory, nightly mantras, and personal anecdotes from The Vampire Miles Proctor’s nearly five hundred years of experience. Welcome to the night.

Author : L. J. Smith
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 1444900714

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The Awakening by L. J. Smith Pdf

Elena's discovers her exciting new boyfriend is actually a vampire.

Author : Lisa A. Nevárez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476613659

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The Vampire Goes to College by Lisa A. Nevárez Pdf

This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom, in the hopes of ushering the Undead out of the coffin and into the classroom. The essays foster interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue, and serve as a collective resource for those currently teaching the vampire as well as newcomers to vampire studies. Opening with a foreword by Sam George, the collection is organized around such topics as historicizing the vampire, teaching the diverse vampire, and engaging the student learner. Interwoven throughout the volume are strategies for incorporating writing instruction and generating conversations about texts ("texts" defined broadly so as to include film and other media). The vampire allows instructors to explore timeless themes such as life and death, love and passion, immortality, and monstrosity and Otherness.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476675749

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The Transmedia Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

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.

Author : Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,,Nina Vanessa Weber,Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650340

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The Vampire Diaries as Postmodern Storytelling by Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,,Nina Vanessa Weber,Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt Pdf

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction. Spanning three decades, TVD has engaged its predominantly teenage audience with storylines around love, friendship, social politics and gender roles. Contributors traverse the franchise's metamorphosis to suit the complex tastes of an early 21st century audience.