The Transmedia Vampire

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Tawnya Ravy,Eric Forcier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848881945

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Words, Worlds, Narratives: Transmedia and Immersion by Tawnya Ravy,Eric Forcier Pdf

Words, Worlds, and Narratives: Transmedia and Immersion offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the way in which narrative is transmitted, transformed and translated through the wide variety of technologies and media platforms available in the 21st century. This volume critically engages with the field of transmedia studies and addresses the significance of media to narrative and authorship to immersion. What emerges is a unique look at collaborative scholarship and storytelling which is both disruptive and immersive. Using a diverse archive of narrative forms, including video games, fan fiction, film adaptation and social media, the chapters in this volume explore the narratological, social, political and economic implications of transmedia narrative in the public and private spaces of the digital and the immersive media communities.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Convergence (Telecommunication)
ISBN : 1789971802

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Transmedia Cultures by Simon Bacon Pdf

"This Transmedia Cultures Companion will show that Transmedia, and indeed Transmedia storytelling are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and to creating the stories of who we are both as individuals and communities. Transmedia then is not just about the Star Wars or Harry Potter franchises or narratives that are exclusive to platforms and devices under the umbrella of New Media, but is anything that creates a believable, navigable space. As such this Companion will take a holistic approach broadening out the areas of everyday life that are implicated and entangled within Transmedia Cultures and world-building and the levels of engagement/immersion that they, purposely or otherwise, create. Of great importance within this are the ways in which Transmedia can facilitate or censor non-normative and individual identities both online or in terms of physical or economical access to technology. This volume then will not so much complicate the topic of Transmedia Cultures but reveal the ever increasing levels of entanglement it has within our real-lives and with those we experience in other more imaginative or creative ones bringing into focus exactly what is at stake in the 'worlds' we choose to call our own"--

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030331368

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic by Clive Bloom Pdf

“Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more comprehensive view of the subject, most readers – even specialists in the subject – will find that there are elements of the Gothic genre here of which they were previously unaware.” - Barry Forshaw, Author of British Gothic Cinema and Sex and Film The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst anticipating the future. From demons and monsters to post- apocalyptic fears and ecological fantasies, Gothic is thriving as never before in the arts and in popular culture. This volume is made up of 62 comprehensive chapters with notes and extended bibliographies contributed by scholars from around the world. The chapters are written not only for those engaged in academic research but also to be accessible to students and dedicated followers of the genre. Each chapter is packed with analysis of the Gothic in both theory and practice, as the genre has mutated and spread over the last hundred years. Starting in 1918 with the impact of film on the genre's development, and moving through its many and varied international incarnations, each chapter chronicles the history of the gothic milieu from the movies to gaming platforms and internet memes, television and theatre. The volume also looks at how Gothic intersects with fashion, music and popular culture: a multi-layered, multi-ethnic, even a trans-gendered experience as we move into the twenty first century.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800855175

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Nosferatu in the 21st Century by Simon Bacon Pdf

‘Nosferatu’ in the 21st Century is a celebration and a critical study of F. W. Murnau’s seminal vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens on the 100th anniversary of its release in 1922.The movie remains a dark mirror to the troubled world we live in seeing it as striking and important in the 2020s as it was a century ago. The unmistakable image of Count Orlok has traveled from his dilapidated castle in old world Transylvania into the futuristic depths of outerspace in Star Trek and beyondas the all-consuming shadow of the vampire spreads ever wider throughout contemporary popular culture. This innovative collection of essays, with a foreword by renowned Dracula expert Gary D. Rhodes, brings together experts in the field alongside creative artists to explore the ongoing impact of Murnau’s groundbreaking movie as it has been adapted, reinterpreted, and recreated across multiple mediums from theatre, performance and film, to gaming, music and even drag. As such, ‘Nosferatu’ in the 21st Century is not only a timely and essential book about Murnau’s film but also illuminates the times that produced it and the world it continues to influence.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3031362527

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

This Handbook MRW will be a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the vampire. Not only covering the list of usual suspects, this volume will provide coverage from the very first reports of vampire-like creatures in the 17th century to film and media representations in the 21st century. The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire will show that what you thought you knew about vampires is only a fraction of the real and fascinating story.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031362538

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647395

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Spoofing the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642307

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Vampires from Another World by Simon Bacon Pdf

This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire. It explores the "vampire from another world" in all its various forms, as a manifestation of not just our anxieties around alien others, but also our alien selves. Unsurprisingly, many of the tropes these novels generated and particularly the themes they have in common have been used and adapted by vampire narratives that followed. From Nosferatu to Alien, Interstellar, Stranger Things, and many others, this book examines how these narratives have evolved since the end of the nineteenth century. Bringing together texts and films from across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, from the far reaches of outer space and the distant future, it concludes that the unexpected and the unknown are not always to be feared, and that humanity does have the power to write its own future.

Author : Sergio Sparviero,Corinna Peil,Gabriele Balbi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319512891

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Media Convergence and Deconvergence by Sergio Sparviero,Corinna Peil,Gabriele Balbi Pdf

This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways. Its parts provide together a broad picture of opposing trends and tensions in media convergence, by underlining the relevance of this powerful idea and emphasizing the misconceptions that it has generated. Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil, Gabriele Balbi and the other authors look into practices and realities of users in convergent media environments, ambiguities in the production and distribution of content, changes to the organization of media industries, the re-configuration of media markets, and the influence of policy and regulations. Primarily addressed to scholars and students in different fields of media and communication studies, Media Convergence and Deconvergence deconstructs taken-for-granted concepts and provides alternative and fresh analyses on one of the most popular topics in contemporary media culture. Chapter 1 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Cori Mathis,Stephanie A. Graves,Melissa Tyndall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666929799

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Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Cori Mathis,Stephanie A. Graves,Melissa Tyndall Pdf

This interdisciplinary edited collection examines multiple themes found within the popular Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Chapters on topics such as genre, postmodernism, adaptation, history, fashion, and ideology offer new insights and contextualize the series within contemporary teen television.

Author : Kathryn N. McDaniel,Emily Strand
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476690537

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Potterversity by Kathryn N. McDaniel,Emily Strand Pdf

Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "Hermione-Approved" MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of wizarding world stories. Essays include analysis of genre conventions, literary and religious symbolism, the role of games in the series, pedagogical approaches, and politically challenging issues like U.S. race relations, colonialism, and gender and sexuality--including direct attention to J.K. Rowling's controversial statements about trans people. Grouped into the sections "Occult Knowledge," "Ancient Magic," "A Question of Character," "Self and Other," "Playing Potter," and "Teaching, the Hogwarts Way," partnered essays precede transcripts of podcast conversations, led by the hosts of Potterversity. The book's essays and conversations aim to engage not only the mind but the spirit as well--the emotional, personal, and moral responses the Potterverse has evoked in so many people around the world. Fundamentally, this book demonstrates that the characters, stories, and situations of the magical realm promote thinking that helps us navigate our more mundane but no less dangerous world. Perhaps even more importantly, they help us to recognize the magic amid our everyday Muggle realities.

Author : Cait Coker,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476675947

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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 : Jonathan C. Evans,Thomas Giddens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848881990

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Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel by Jonathan C. Evans,Thomas Giddens Pdf

Collecting chapters from authors all over the world, this volume examines and expounds the rich tapestry of meanings, expressions, and cultural insights found in the medium of comics.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647647

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Faith and the Zombie by Simon Bacon Pdf

Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns. This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.