Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the...
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Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire, and television programmes such as Being Human and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: 'A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas': The Vampire in English and American Literature; 1 Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text; 2 Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire; 3 'Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?': Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction; 4 Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight series; 5 Whiteness, Vampires and Humanity in Contemporary Film and Television
6 The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victimhood and Post-memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire7 Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other; 8 Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series; 9 The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice; 10 Matt Haig's The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age; References; Index;
Introduction: "a swarm of chuffing draculas": the vampire in English and American literature / Deborah Mutch -- Blood, bodies, books: Kim Newman and the vampire as cultural text / Keith Scott -- Buffy vs. Bella: gender, relationships and the modern vampire / Bethan Jones -- "Hell! was I becoming a vampyre slut?": sex, sexuality and morality in young adult vampire fiction / Hannah Priest -- Consuming clothes and dressing desire in the Twilight series / Sarah Heaton -- Whiteness and the contemporary vampire in film and television / Ewan Kirkland -- The vampiric diaspora: the complications of victimhood and post-memory as configured in the Jewish migrant vampire / Simon Bacon -- Vampires and gentiles: Jews, Mormons and embracing the other / Clare Reed -- Transcending the massacre: vampire Mormons in the Twilight series / Yael Maurer -- The gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice / Victoria Amador -- Matt Haig's the Radleys: vampires for the neoliberal age / Deborah Mutch.
