Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most

While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it...
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Author: William Patrick Day
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Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most by Day, William Patrick

Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most

€44,96

Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most

€44,96
Author: William Patrick Day
Format: Paperback
Language: English

While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories-from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite-have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human.

William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.



Author: William Patrick Day
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 08/26/2009
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780813192505

About the Author

William Patrick Day is professor of English at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.




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