The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 68) Kindle Edition
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| Management number | 220504046 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $10.40 | Model Number | 220504046 | ||
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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. Read more
| XRay | Not Enabled |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1476637334 |
| Edition | Critical |
| Language | English |
| File size | 3.1 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | McFarland |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Reading age | 18 years and up |
| Print length | 429 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Publication date | January 27, 2020 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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