Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Simon Bacon is a writer and independent scholar based in PoznaĹ, Poland. He has written and edited over thirty books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023) and Future Folk Horror (2023).
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.
Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments â both physical and immaterial â the book delves into the questions relating to American geography, identity, racial and ethnic tensions, American colonial past and its urban and environmental history. With contributions from a diverse and international team of authors, the collection follows the vampire across the geographical and ideological landscape of the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead and why the post-Trump America of the twenty-first century is a truly vampiric one.
This timely and truly innovative volume will resonate firmly with scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies and urban and environmental studies.
This book offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America, and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. It will benefit scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies, and urban and environmental studies.
Introduction
Part I: Towns and Cities
1. Forks: Exploited Reservations, Ongoing Subjugation and Indigenous HistoricisationâThe Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels
2. Chicago: Some Girls WhiteâTaking the âUrbanâ Out of Urban Fantasy in the Chicagoland Vampires Series
3. New York City: Bloodlines and SkylinesâVampires, Colonisation, and Gentrification in New York City
4. Hollywood: Vampires in Hollywood
5. Louisiana: Vampires of the American SouthâExploring Undead Louisiana in True Blood and The Originals
Part II: Environments
6. CarnivalâVampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore
7. Suburbia: Blood in da âBurbsâ
8. Urban Decay: âHe Could be the Boy Next DoorâŚââUrban Decay and Race in Martin
9. Drifters: Vagrant VampiresâBloodsuckers in Americaâs Arteries
10. Borderlands: âFrom Here to ModernityââThe Heterotopic Meaning of the Vampires in Dusk till Dawn (Series 3)
11. Winterlands: Hideous WinterâVampires, Violence and Snow in American Screen Horror
Part III: Ideologies
12. The Margins: Boardwalk VampireâStaking a Claim to the Edges of the American Nightmare
13. The FolkâA Psychogeography of the Dead: American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind
14. The Old South: âNo One Likes to Reminisce About the Old Slave Daysâ: Romanticizing the Old South, Confederate Vampires, and Transatlantic Slavery in Twenty-First Century Vampire Media
15. Capitalism: Vampire CapitalismâDaybreakers and American Bloodsuckers
16. The Future?: A Future AmericaâPossible Topographies of a Future Vampiric America in Stake Land (2010) and Crimson Winter (2013)
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Simon Bacon is a writer and independent scholar based in PoznaĹ, Poland. He has written and edited over thirty books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023) and Future Folk Horror (2023).