The Global Vampire

Cait Coker is associate professor and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on genre history, women's writing, and the history of women in publishing.

Acknowledgmentsvi
Preface (and In Memoriam)1
Introduction—Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture (Cait Coker)3
The Americas and Canada
Biting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative
(Candace R. Benefiel)11
"I'll give you blood to drink": The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials (Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez)23
Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative (Kendra R. Parker) 35
The Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's (Carmilla
Natalie Krikowa)48
Éternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec (Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville)60
Europe and the Mediterranean
"The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!": Racism, "True" Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film (Simon Bacon)77
Amid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In (Marie Levesque)90
The Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri
per i vampiri (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)104
"Time is an abyss": The Role of History in Werner Herzog's
Nosferatu (1979) (Thomas Prasch)116
There's Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment
in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (Karen E. Viars)128
Asia and Australia From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire "Fan" in Korean Dramas (Cait Coker)143
"Don't adjust your life to mine": Moon Child, Homoeroticism
and the Vampire as Multifaceted Other (Miranda Ruth Larsen)153
Aboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality
(Naomi Simone Borwein)165
"In need of vitamin sea": The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager's Vampires (Phil Fitzsimmons)177
Globalism: Real and Virtual Worlds?
The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change
as a Holocaust (Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad)189
"Set to drain": Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor
in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Trevor Dodge)200
Afterword (Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo)211
About the Contributors215
Works Cited219
Index235