New Vampire Cinema

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2012

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining.Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer - films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions.New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire,

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844574407
ISBN-10: 1844574407
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 33 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:2012
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The first time 'new vampire cinema' has been discussed as a body of film: bringing together the most significant vampire films from the last 20 years and making sense of it as a genre that says something about being modern

Notă biografică

KEN GELDER is Professor of English in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), the co-authored Uncanny Australia (1998), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), and Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007). He is editor of The Horror Reader (2000) and the second edition of The Subcultures Reader (2005).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Inauthentic Vampires.- Bram Stoker's Dracula, Shadow of the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned.- Our Vampires, Our Neighbours.- Frostbitten, Let the Right One In, Let Me In, Night Watch, and Day Watch.- Citational Vampires.- Irma Vep, Vampire Hunter D: Blood Lust, Blood: The Last Vampire, and Thirst.- Vampires in the Americas.- Nadja, The Addiction, Habit, and Vampire in Brooklyn; Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse; Cronos; the From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy and the John Carpenter's Vampires Trilogy.- Diminishing Vampires.- The Blade trilogy; the Underworld trilogy; Ultraviolet, The Breed, Perfect Creature and Daybreakers.- Bibliography.- Index.

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