Postmodern Vampires Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture /

• Main Author: Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Film genres.; Goth culture (Subculture) .; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Genre.; Gothic Studies.

Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: 'Something from the vampire's point of view'
• 2. Chapter One: Secrets and Lies: Postmodern Undeath in the 1970s
• 3. Chapter Two: Family Values, Apocalyptic Plagues, and Yuppie Undeath in the 1980s
• 4. Chapter Three: Gothic Double Vision at the Fin de Millennium
• 5. Chapter Four: Fundamentalism, Hybridity, and Remapping the Vampire Body
• 6. Chapter Five: Vampire Intimacy, Profusion, and Re-writing Undeath.