Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of the genre itself, it utilises a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to show how the many facets of the vampire can destabilise traditional categories of who we are and what we might become.
This volume then provides a timely examination of the multifaceted and multivalent character of the vampire and the possibilities inherent within our interactions with them, making this study a consideration of what we might term 'vampiric becomings' and an exploration of why the undead 'creatures of the night' remain so fascinating to Western culture.
| ISBN: | 9783034319904 |
| Publication date: | 20th December 2016 |
| Author: | Simon Bacon |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 282 pages |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Television: styles and genres Cultural studies Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of the genre itself, it utilises a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to show how the many facets of the vampire can destabilise traditional categories of who we are and what we might become.
Becoming Vampire features in the following genres: Film history, theory or criticism, Television: styles and genres, Cultural studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Becoming Vampire was written by Simon Bacon and published by Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Becoming Vampire has 282 pages