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Postmodern Vampires

Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

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Authors:
  1. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

    1. Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

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  • This book was awarded the Lord Ruthven Award in Vampire Studies by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in 2020.
  • Constitutes a groundbreaking study on the subjective vampire
  • Examines the impact of the American Presidency and Postmodernism on Gothic and Horror studies
  • Offers new and compelling research on popular and lesser-known texts, authors, and filmmakers

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: ‘Something from the Vampire’s Point of View’

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 1-15

  3. Secrets and Lies: Postmodern Undeath in the 1970s

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 17-64

  4. Family Values, Apocalyptic Plagues, and Yuppie Undeath in the 1980s

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 65-114

  5. Gothic Double Vision at the Fin-de-Millennium

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 115-168

  6. Fundamentalism, Hybridity, and Remapping the Vampire Body

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 169-214

  7. Vampire Intimacy, Profusion, and Rewriting Undeath

    • Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    Pages 215-256

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 257-264
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About this book

Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire’s blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.

    

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

About the author

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies, and founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has published widely in the fields of Gothic and Horror Studies and Popular Culture, specialising in monsters, subjectivity, and cultural history. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Postmodern Vampires

  • Book Subtitle: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

  • Authors: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58377-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58376-5Published: 09 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58377-2Published: 25 April 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Genre, Gothic Studies

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