Blood Read The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

Name: Blood Read The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
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ISBN: 9780812216288

ISBN-10: 0812216288

ISBN-13: 9780812216288

Edition: 1998

Authors: Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Brian Aldiss

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword: Vampires


The Ancient Fear


Brian Aldiss


Acknowledgments



Introduction


The Shape of Vampires




My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed




Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door




The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction




Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother




Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry




Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood




Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction




Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire




When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan




Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld




The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins




Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction




Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire




Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire



Hollinger Notes


Works Cited


Films Cited


Index


List of Contributors