Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture / edited by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger ; foreword by Brian Aldiss.

Other author Gordon, Joan, 1947-
Other author Hollinger, Veronica.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : the shape of vampires / Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger -- My vampire, my friend : the intimacy Dracula destroyed / Nina Auerbach -- Metaphor into metonymy : the vampire next door / Jules Zanger -- The vampire as alien in contemporary fiction / Margaret L. Carter -- Sharper than a serpent's tooth : the vampire in search of its mother / Joan Gordon -- Mediations in red : on writing The vampire tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas -- Sang for supper : notes on the metaphorical use of vampires in The empire of fear and Young blood / Brian Stableford -- Recasting the mythology : writing vampire fiction / Jewelle Gomez -- Dieting and damnation : Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire / Sandra Tomc -- When Hollywood sucks, or Hungry girls, lost boys, and vampirism in the age of Reagan / Nicola Nixon -- Consuming youth : the lost boys cruise mallworld / Rob Latham -- The Gilda stories : revealing the monsters at the margins / Miriam Jones -- Coming out of the coffin : gay males and queer goths in contemporary vampire fiction / Trevor Holmes -- Techno-Gothic Japan : from Seishi Yokomizo's The death's-head stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the vampire / Mari Kotani -- Fantasies of absence : the postmodern vampire / Veronica Hollinger.
Local noteLittle-317701--305131027916
Bibliography noteFilmography: p. [249]-250.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
LCCN 97025079
ISBN0812234197 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0812216288 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.V35 B58 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold