Images of the Modern Vampire (eBook)

Barbara Brodman is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American studies, and international business and has published a variety of scholarly works that deal with international arts and affairs. James E. Doan is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches courses in literature, the arts, folklore and mythology, including a course on the vampire which he has taught for some twenty years.

Acknowledgments Barbara Brodman and James E. DoanIntroduction The Vampire in Modern FilmVictoria Williams1 - Reflecting Dracula: The Un-dead in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt Murray Leeder2 - “A Species of One”: The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles Melissa Olson3 - Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice Simon Bacon4 - Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine Race, Gender and the VampireDonna Mitchell5 - The Madonna and Child: Re-Evaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice’s Forgotten Females Karin Hirmer6 - Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in Control Cheyenne Mathews7 - Lightening “The White Man’s Burden”: Evolution of the Vampire from the Victorian Racialism of Dracula to the New World Order of I Am Legend Zélie Asava8 - “You’re Nothing to Me But Another... [White] Vampire”: A Study of the Representation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema Marie-Luise Loeffler9 - “She Would Be No Man’s Property Ever Again”: Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women’s Fiction New Readings of the VampireAlaina Steiner10 - Blood-Abstinent Vampires & the Women Who Consume Them Ben Murnane11 - “Exactly My Brand of Heroin”: Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon Hope Jennings and Christine Wilson12 - Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series Sarah Heaton13 - Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series Batia Stolar14 - The Politics of Reproduction in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga Burcu Genç15 - The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+ James E. Doan and Barbara Brodman16 - Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context: Reconfiguring the Universal Vampire About the Contributors Index