Open graves, open minds : representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /: representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes.
• Other Names: Dr, George, Sam; Hughes, Bill
• Contents: 1. Introduction / Sam George and Bill Hughes -- 2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero : Polidori and the literary vampire / Conrad Aquilina -- 3. Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion / Julieann Ulin -- 4. 'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction : Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed's 'vampire painting' / Sam George -- 5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampir / Lisa Lampert-Weissig -- 6. The undead in the kingdom of the shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire / Stacey Abbott -- 7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film / Lindsey Scott. 8. 'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Malgorzata Drewniok -- 9. Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle / Catherine Spooner -- 10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and The Twilight Saga / Jennifer H. Williams -- 11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body / Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt -- 12. The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood / Michelle J. Smith -- 13. Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman -- 14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface / Ivan Phillips -- 15. 'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead / Bill Hughes -- 16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction : writing My Swordhand is Singing / Marcus Sedgwick.
• Publisher Details: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 314 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809/.93375; Vampires in literature -- Congresses; Vampires on television -- Congresses; Vampire films -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Vampire films; Vampires in literature; Vampires on television; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526102157; 1526102153
• Related ISBNs: 9780719089411; 0719089417
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• 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.