Reading vampire gothic through blood : bloodlines /: bloodlines. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aspasia Stephanou, Independent Scholar, Cyprus.
• Authors: Stephanou, Aspasia
• Contents: 1.A Matter of Life and Death: Transfusing Blood from a Supernatural Past to Scientific Modernity and Vampiric Technology; 2.The Biopolitics of the Vampire Narrative: Vampire Epidemics, AIDS, and Bioterrorism; 3.''Tis My Heart, Be Sure, She Eats for Her Food': Female Consumptives and Female Consumers; 4.'Race as Biology is Fiction': The Bad Blood of the Vampire; 5.'The Sunset of Humankind is the Dawn of the Blood Harvest': Blood Banks, Synthetic Blood and Haemocommerce; 6.'Many People have Vampires in their Blood': 'Real' Vampire Communities; Conclusion: The Blood of the Vampire: Globalisation, Resistance and the Sacred; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.93375; Popular Culture; Vampires in mass media; Blood -- Symbolic aspects; Blood -- Social aspects; Blood -- Folklore; Human body in mass media; Blood in literature; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Folklore & Mythology; Media Studies; Film: styles & genres; Literary theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137349248; 1137349247
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.