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Author:   Simon Bacon
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781476682686

ISBN 10:   1476682682
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 October 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Simon Bacon Part I: Comedy and the Vampire What We Do in Twilight Shadows: Comedy in the Vampire Genre as Both a Celebration and a Weapon Andrew M. Boylan The Comedy of Terrors: A Humor Theory Analysis of Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving Matthew McKeague Dracula in New York: The Comic, Anachronistic Vampire in Love at First Bite and Vamps Murray Leeder Less Blacula and More Buffy: The ­Self-Aware Mythology of Vampire in Brooklyn Valerie Estelle Frankel Part II: Spoofing Across Media Care for a Bite? Vampire-Inspired Cookbooks Victoria Amador Defanging Nosferatu: Case Studies of the Neutering of Bloodsuckers, Vampires and the Undead Across Children’s Media (1950s–1980s) Robert Mclaughlin Between Sentimentality, Sentience and Sense Making: The Visual Markers of the Vampire in Online Caricatures Phil Fitzsimmons Part III: Spoofing and Gender “Meet the Camp Vamp”: Exploring Genre, the Vampire as a Comedic Figure and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Blair Speakman and Carmel Cedro Refusing Life in the Shadows: The Anti-Patriarchal Bite of What We Do in the Shadows Natalie Wilson Mocking Masculinity: Comedy and Subversion in ­Women-Directed Vampire Films Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Donna McRae Fuckable Bodies: Male Virginity in Vamp, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and Once Bitten Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part IV: Seriously Spoofing Vampires Clashing with the 21st Century: Analyzing Postmodern Irony in What We Do in the Shadows Zita Hüsing Spoofing the Byronic, Changing the Vampire: Locating the Byronic Hero in What We Do in the Shadows (2014– ) Debaditya Mukhopadhyay A Spike for an Angel: How the Comic Bites into the Dramatic Ildikó Limpár “This is the bloody ­twenty-first century!” The (Post)Modern Vampires of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh About the Contributors Index

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Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

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