Overview
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: Cait Coker
- | Publisher: McFarland
- | Publication Date: January 10, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 251 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1476675945
- | ISBN-13: 9781476675947
