Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms Essays on Gender, Race and Culture

by Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan Kay S.

• ISBN13: 9780810866966
• ISBN10: 081086696X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-08
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for countless artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films to Hammer's Technicolor representations, iterations of Dracula have become cemented in mainstream cinema. This anthology investigates and explores the far larger body of work that has reinvented Dracula from sources beyond such films.

Author Biography

John Edgar Browning teachers courses on composition and monstrosity at Louisiana State University. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart has been a professor of philosophy, biology, English, and film. She is the author of several books, including Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film (2004) and The Holocaust Film Sourcebook (2004).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Documenting Dracula and Global Identities in Film, Literature, and Anime	p. ix
Tackling Race, Gender, and Modes of Narration in America
Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the Complexities of the Classic Horror Film Sequel	p. 3
The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) Cultural Revolution	p. 19
The Compulsions of Real/Reel Serial Killers and Vampires: Toward a Gothic Criminology	p. 37
Blood, Lust, and the Fe/Male Narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and the Novel (1897)	p. 63
The Borg as Vampire in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and Start Trek: First Contact (1996): An Uncanny Reflection	p. 77
When Women Kill: Undead Imagery in the Cinematic Portrait of Aileen Wuornos	p. 93
Working through Change and Xenophobia in Europe
Return Ticket to Transylvania: Relations between Historical Reality and Vampire Fiction	p. 115
Racism and the Vampire: The Anti-Slavic Premise of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)	p. 127
The Greateful Un-Dead: Count Dracula and the Transnational Counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)	p. 135
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) as a Legacy of Romanticism	p. 153
Imperialism, Hybridity, and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Asia
"Death and the Maiden": The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture	p. 167
Becoming-Death: The Lollywood Gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz's Zinda Laash (Dracula in Pakistan [US title], 1967)	p. 187
Modernity as Crisis: Goeng Si and Vampires in Hong Kong Cinema	p. 203
Enter the Dracula: The Silent Screams and Cultural Crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong Cinema	p. 235
Identity Crisis: Imperialist Vampires in Japan?	p. 261
The Western Eastern: Decoding Hybridity and CyberZen Goth(ic) in Vampire Hunter D (1985)	p. 279
Index	p. 295
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 311
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.