In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection also looked at the non-Western vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican traditions, Asian and Russian vampires in popular culture, and the vampire in contemporary novels, film and television. The essays in this collection continue that multi-cultural and multigeneric discussion by tracing the development of the post-modern vampire, in films ranging from Shadow of a Doubt to Blade, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Interview with the Vampire; the male and female vampires in the Twilight films, Sookie Stackhouse novels and True Blood television series; the vampire in African American women's fiction, Anne Rice's novels and in the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend; vampires in Japanese anime; and finally, to bring the volumes full circle, the presentation of a new Irish Dracula play, adapted from the novel and set in 1888.
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 Zelie 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 Genc 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
