Transmedia Vampire Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead
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Biografisk notat
Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.âA solid collection of essays with a wide view of an expansive topicâŚThere is much worth to be found within the volume and it is recommendedââ<i>Journal of Vampire Studies</i>
This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more "real" through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the "vampire world," blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as "author," "reader," "player" and "consumer." These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.
Acknowledgments
Foreword: We Are, All of Us, Renfields
John Edgar Browning
Introduction
Simon Bacon
Part IâDracula: Adaptations and Re-Creations
We Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula Megatext
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
âBetter Partsâ: Redemptive Portrayals of Count Dracula as Vlad the Impaler in Selected Film Adaptions of Stokerâs Dracula
Wayne Derek Pigeon-Coote
âIâve crossed oceans of versions to find youâ: Remediating Mina from Novel to Screen in Bram Stokerâs Dracula (1992)
Cathleen Allyn Conway
Part IIâAcross Mediums, Platforms and Levels of Engagement
Byzantium Stage to Screen
Gina Wisker
Pixel Parasites: The Virtual Vampire as Enemy, Ally and Self in Video Games
Shawn Edrei
Vampire as Doll: Transformations of Meaning Through Play in the Vampirina and Draculaura (Monster High) Franchises
Derek Newman-Stille
âDo Vampires Get Their Periods?â: The Carmilla Web Series and the Politics of Bleeding Women
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Part IIIâTransnational Transmedia
Vampire Tourism: Transmedia Narratives, Cultural Histories and Locating the Undead
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Thinking in Connections: A.A. Carrâs Eye Killers and F.W. Murnauâs Nosferatu
Svetlana Seibel
From Revenants to Vampires: The Transmedia Evolution of the Jiangshi
Katarzyna Ancuta
Part IVâInterventions, Fandom, Ownership
Transmedia Interventions and Palimpsestuous Relations: Carmilla Meets Carmen Maria Machado
Natalie Wilson
The Originals and Family History Two-Fold: Caught Between Two Worlds
Verena Bernardi
Transmedia Vampire Stories and Their Consumers in Anne Riceâs The Vampire Chronicles
Laura Davidel
First-Person Gothic: Anne Rice, Vampirism, Authorship and Identity
Evan Hayles Gledhill
About the Contributors
Index