Vampire Films Around the World: Essays on the Cinematic Undead of Sixteen Cultures - Softcover

James Aubrey (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476676739 ISBN 13: 9781476676739

Publisher: McFarland, 2020

Synopsis

Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract.

This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.

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About the Author

James Aubrey is a professor of world literature and cinema studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His previous publications include essays on British and Indian literatures and two other books about John Fowles. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476676739
• ISBN 13: 9781476676739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255