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Author:   James Aubrey
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781476676739

ISBN 10:   1476676739
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   23 October 2020
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 Introduction (James Aubrey) Australia Children of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Aristocrats and Outback Vampires (Graeme A. ­Wend-Walker) Canada A Monstrous Showing: Movement and Deformed Discourse in Guy Maddin’s Vampire Ballet Film Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Lorna Hutchison) China The Hong Kong Vampire Returns: Nostalgia, Pastiche and Politics in Rigor Mortis (Fontaine Lien) Germany Nosferatu’s Daughters: Radical Feminism, ­Lesbo-Vampirism and Fluid Identities in Dennis Gansel’s Wir sind die Nacht (We Are the Night) (Kai-Uwe Werbeck) India Chutney Vampires: Contextualizing Bollywood’s Undead Cinema (Anurag Chauhan) Iran Reclaiming the Marginalized Female Body in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (U. Melissa Anyiwo) Ireland and Creating an Irish Neomyth: Byzantium’s Feminist Vampires (James Aubrey) Italy Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D: History, Genre and the Politics of Camp (Vincent Piturro) Japan The Intertextuality of Moon Child: How Japanese Popular Culture Molds and Interprets Gender and the Vampire (Jade Lum) Korea Blood, Dust and the Black Universe: From Asia Extreme to the Vampire ­World-Image in Thirst, The Wailing and the New Korean Vampire Horror Cinema (David John Boyd) Mexico The Craft of Delicacy in Cronos: Rethinking Vampire Films in Latin America (Roberto ­Forns-Broggi) Morocco and Only Lovers Left Alive: Expat Vampires and ­Post-Imperial Cosmopolitanism (Wendolyn Weber) New Zealand “Don’t … don’t believe the hype!” Vampiric Evolution and What We Do in the Shadows (Charles Hoge) Serbia Vampire Privilege: Class, Gender and Sex in Serbian Metaphysical Horror (Tatjana Aleksić) Sweden Unqueering Child Vampire Love in Let the Right One (James Aubrey) Museological Horror in Ganja and Hess and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Cheryl D. Edelson) “It’s more like a disease”: Compensatory Masculinities and Intersectional “Otherness” in The Transfiguration (Cain Miller) Filmography Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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James Aubrey is a professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he teaches British and world literatures as well as film studies. He has published numerous articles on literature and three previous books.

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