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Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture

Title
  1. Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture / edited by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger ; foreword by Brian Aldiss.
Published by
  1. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Gordon, Joan, 1947-
  2. Hollinger, Veronica.
Description
  1. xi, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Metaphor
  2. Popular culture > History > 20th century
  3. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  4. Vampires in literature
  5. Vampire films > History and criticism
  6. Horror tales, American > History and criticism
Contents
  1. Introduction : the shape of vampires / Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger -- My vampire, my friend : the intimacy Dracula destroyed / Nina Auerbach -- Metaphor into metonymy : the vampire next door / Jules Zanger -- The vampire as alien in contemporary fiction / Margaret L. Carter -- Sharper than a serpent's tooth : the vampire in search of its mother / Joan Gordon -- Mediations in red : on writing The vampire tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas -- Sang for supper : notes on the metaphorical use of vampires in The empire of fear and Young blood / Brian Stableford -- Recasting the mythology : writing vampire fiction / Jewelle Gomez -- Dieting and damnation : Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire / Sandra Tomc -- When Hollywood sucks, or Hungry girls, lost boys, and vampirism in the age of Reagan / Nicola Nixon -- Consuming youth : the lost boys cruise mallworld / Rob Latham -- The Gilda stories : revealing the monsters at the margins / Miriam Jones -- Coming out of the coffin : gay males and queer goths in contemporary vampire fiction / Trevor Holmes -- Techno-Gothic Japan : from Seishi Yokomizo's The death's-head stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the vampire / Mari Kotani -- Fantasies of absence : the postmodern vampire / Veronica Hollinger.
Call number
  1. JFE 97-14010
Bibliography (note)
  1. Filmography: p. [249]-250.
  2. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
Title
  1. Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture / edited by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger ; foreword by Brian Aldiss.
Imprint
  1. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
Bibliography
  1. Filmography: p. [249]-250.
  2. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
Added author
  1. Gordon, Joan, 1947-
  2. Hollinger, Veronica.
LCCN
  1. 97025079
ISBN
  1. 0812234197 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0812216288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 97-14010
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