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 Historicisation—The Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels

2. Chicago: Some Girls White—Taking the “Urban” Out of Urban Fantasy in the Chicagoland Vampires Series

3. New York City: Bloodlines and Skylines—Vampires, Colonisation, and Gentrification in New York City

4. Hollywood: Vampires in Hollywood

5. Louisiana: Vampires of the American South—Exploring Undead Louisiana in True Blood and The Originals

Part II: Environments

6. Carnival—Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore

7. Suburbia: Blood in da ‘Burbs’

8. Urban Decay: “He Could be the Boy Next Door…”—Urban Decay and Race in Martin

9. Drifters: Vagrant Vampires—Bloodsuckers in America’s Arteries

10. Borderlands: “From Here to Modernity”—The Heterotopic Meaning of the Vampires in Dusk till Dawn (Series 3)

11. Winterlands: Hideous Winter—Vampires, Violence and Snow in American Screen Horror

Part III: Ideologies

12. The Margins: Boardwalk Vampire—Staking a Claim to the Edges of the American Nightmare

13. The Folk—A Psychogeography of the Dead: American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind

14. The Old South: “No One Likes to Reminisce About the Old Slave Days”: Romanticizing the Old South, Confederate Vampires, and Transatlantic Slavery in Twenty-First Century Vampire Media

15. Capitalism: Vampire Capitalism—Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers

16. The Future?: A Future America—Possible Topographies of a Future Vampiric America in Stake Land (2010) and Crimson Winter (2013)

Index