Draculas, vampires, and other undead forms : essays on gender, race, and culture / edited by John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart.


Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Tackling race, gender, and modes of narration in America. Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the complexities of the classic horror film sequel / Gary D. Rhodes — The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) cultural revolution / Paul R. Lehman and John Edgar Browning — The compulsions of real/reel serial killers and vampires: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek — Blood, lust, and the fe/male narrative in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) and the novel (1897) / Lisa Nystrom — The borg as vampire in Star Trek: the next generation (1987-1994) and Star Trek: first contact (1996): an uncanny reflection / Justin Everett — When women kill: undead imagery in the cinematic portrait of Aileen Wuornos / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek — Working through change and xenophobia in Europe. Return ticket to Transylvania: relations between historical reality and vampire fiction / Santiago Lucendo — Racism and the vampire: the anti-Slavic premise of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) / Jimmie Cain — The grateful un-dead: Count Dracula and the transnational counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) / Paul Newland — Nosferatu the vampyre (1979) as a legacy of romanticism / Martina G. Lüke — Imperialism, hybridity, and cross-cultural fertilization in Asia. Death and the maiden : the Pontianak as excess in Malay popular culture / Andrew Hock-Soon Ng — Becoming-Death: the Lollywood gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz’s Zinda Laash (1967, Dracula in Pakistan (US title), 1967) / Sean Moreland and Summer Pervez — Modernity as crisis: Goeng si and vampires in Hong Kong cinema / Dale Hudson — Enter the Dracula: the silent screams and cultural crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema / Wayne Stein — Identity crisis: imperialist vampires in Japan? / Nicholas Schlegel — The western Eastern: decoding hybridity and cyberZen goth(ic) in Vampire hunter D (1985) / Wayne Stein and John Edgar Browning.

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