| Descript |
xiii, 159 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Conference held in 1997 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Part One: Studies in Stoker -- 1. Shapeshifting Dracula: The Abridged Edition of 1901 -- Elizabeth Miller -- 2. Brain Stoker and Irish Gothic -- Raymond T. McNally -- 3. Dracula 's Reflection: The Jewel of Seven Stars -- Katie Harse -- 4. "Appalling in Its Gloomy Fascination": Stoker's Dracula and Wilde's Salome -- William Pencak -- 5. Stoker's Dracula: A Neo-Gothic Experiment -- Scott Vander Ploeg -- 6. Men in Love: The Fantasizing of Bram Stoker and Edvard Munch -- Suzanna Nyberg -- Part Two: The Vampire in Film and Popular Culture -- 7. Bela Lugosi's Dead, but Vampire Music Stalks the Airwaves -- Tony Fonseca -- 8. Policing Eddie Murphy: The Unstable Black Body in Vampire in Brooklyn -- Leslie Tannenbaum -- 9. Resurrection in Britain: Christopher Lee and Hammer Draculas -- James Craig Holte -- 10. I, Strahd: Narrative Voice and Variations on a Non-Player Character in -- TSR's "Ravenloft" Universe -- Margaret Carter -- Part Three: Modem Vampire Fictions -- 11. The Mother Goddess in H. Rider Haggard's She and Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned -- Bette Roberts -- 12. Blood Spirit/Blood Bodies: The Viral in the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Heidi L. Nordberg -- 13. Kelene: The Face in the Mirror -- Stephanie Moss -- 14. The Construction of the Vampire in Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania -- Sharon A. Russell -- Part Four: Contemporary Issues in the World of the Undead -- 15. Deadly Kisses: Vampirism, Colonialism, and the Gendering of Horror -- Teri Ann Doerksen -- 16. "A Girl Like That Will Give You AIDS!": Vampirism as AIDS Metaphor in Killing Zoe -- Jeane Rose -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors. |
| ISBN |
9780313309335 (alk. paper) |
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0313309337 (alk. paper) |
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