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The vampire film : undead cinema / Jeffrey Weinstock

Author
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
Additional Titles
Undead cinema
Published
London ; New York : Wallflower, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction: Vampire cinema -- Vampire sex -- Vampire technology -- Vampire otherness -- Code : vampirising genre.
Summary
This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organized by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is invariably about sex and the vexed human relationship with technology, and that the vampire is always an overdetermined body condensing what a culture considers other. This volume includes in-depth studies of films including Powell's A Fool There Was, Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, Cronenberg's Rabid, Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, and Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.
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ISBN
0231850034 (electronic bk.)
9780231850032 (electronic bk.)
9780231162012 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231162014 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-138) and index.
Includes filmography (pages 130-133).
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