Images of the Modern Vampire

This book examines vampires as an international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire, or twentieth-century film versions. Instead, the authors reshape the legend into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant while retaining elements of folklore mixed with a hint of science fiction.

Barbara Brodman is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American studies, and international business and has published a variety of scholarly works that deal with international arts and affairs. James E. Doan is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches courses in literature, the arts, folklore and mythology, including a course on the vampire which he has taught for some twenty years.

Acknowledgments Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan Introduction The Vampire in Modern Film Victoria Williams 1 - Reflecting Dracula: The Un-dead in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt Murray Leeder 2 - "A Species of One": The Atavistic Vampire from Dracula to The Wisdom of Crocodiles Melissa Olson 3 - Dracula the Anti-Christ: New Resurrection of an Immortal Prejudice Simon Bacon 4 - Eat Me! The Morality of Hunger in Vampiric Cuisine Race, Gender and the Vampire Donna Mitchell 5 - The Madonna and Child: Re-Evaluating Social Conventions through Anne Rice's Forgotten Females Karin Hirmer 6 - Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in Control Cheyenne Mathews 7 - Lightening "The White Man's Burden": Evolution of the Vampire from the Victorian Racialism of Dracula to the New World Order of I Am Legend Zélie Asava 8 - "You're Nothing to Me But Another... [White] Vampire": A Study of the Representation of the Black Vampire in American Mainstream Cinema Marie-Luise Loeffler 9 - "She Would Be No Man's Property Ever Again": Vampirism, Slavery, and Black Female Heroism in Contemporary African American Women's Fiction New Readings of the Vampire Alaina Steiner 10 - Blood-Abstinent Vampires & the Women Who Consume Them Ben Murnane 11 - "Exactly My Brand of Heroin": Contexts and the Creation of the Twilight Phenomenon Hope Jennings and Christine Wilson 12 - Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series Sarah Heaton 13 - Vampire Vogue and Female Fashion: Dressing Skin and Dressing-up in the Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight Series Batia Stolar 14 - The Politics of Reproduction in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga Burcu Genç 15 - The Vampire from an Evolutionary Perspective in Japanese Animation: Blood+ James E. Doan and Barbara Brodman 16 - Adapting Dracula to an Irish Context: Reconfiguring the Universal Vampire About the Contributors Index