|
![FROM SHADOWED SHELVES]()
Vampires in Literature and Film
Academic studies and critical works, bibliographies, film guides, and analyses of vampire media in general.
Alphabetically by author's name
Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography
by Patricia Altner
This bibliography of vampire literature focuses on works published since 1987 and covers novels, novellas, anthologies, Young Adult, and non-fiction ("additional reading"). Aiming for the popular rather than the scholarly audience, Altner defines "vampire" as a "blooddrinking immortal humanoid", thereby eliminating such tangents on the theme as science-fiction vampires ("Shambleau", Lifeforce) psychic/energy/emotional vampires, alien or animal vampires and so on. The annotations for each work give descriptive information but don't rate the book for comparative quality, perhaps allowing that all readers' tastes are different. Information on series of books is given (such as the order they need to be read in), and there are author/editor and title indexes. A good reference for those interested in exploring vampire fiction they haven't heard of or making sure their collection is complete.
Softbound (1998)--Order Now |
![]() Our Vampires, Ourselves
by Nina Auerbach
Auerbach examines themes in classic vampire fiction and films, showing how they have changed as the culture changed and reflect the issues and concerns of the society which produced the artists. A fascinating look at such diverse topics as the shifting importance of sunlight and moonlight in vampire fiction, female power and vampirism, and the ability of vampires to be "cured".
Hardcover (1995)--Order Now Softbound (1997)--Order Now |
The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography
by Margaret L. Carter (Editor)
(Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 21) "Comprehensive bibliography (1000+ items) is preceded by three critical essays, two by the editor and one by Devendra P. Varma, a scholar of Dracula and vampirism. A timely release considering the upsurge of interest in this field, and well done." --Book News Inc.
Softbound (Photocopy) (1989)--Order Now |
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most
by William Patrick Day
While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture examines how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate both current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
Hardcover (Sept 2002)--Order Now |
Vampirism: Literary Tropes of Decadence and Entropy
by Michael James Dennison
This study of the vampire in literature from the early nineteenth century to the present analyzes its metaphorical characteristics. The vampire is the perfect figure of disorder and entropy, and its dominance as a literary figure/monster, an instigator of chaos of all kinds, makes it worthy of study for readers interested in an emerging theory of literary disorder as well as horror literature. Entropy, the most intriguing root metaphor of our time, and the vampire, figure of decadence, degeneration, and perverse physics, illuminate each other as Michael J. Dennison examines such famous works as Dracula and The Fall of the House of Usher, as well as works that have unjustly fallen into near obscurity.
Hardcover (Jan. 2001)--Order Now |
Reading the Vampire (Popular Fictions)
by Ken Gelder
Reading the Vampire examines the creature in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film--from early vampire stories such as Polidori's "The Vampyre", J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "lesbian vampire" tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, "post-Ceausescu" vampire narratives, and films such as F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing how vampire narratives reproduce the anxieties and fascinations of their times--from nineteenth century investments in travel and tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity and obsessions with sex, to queer identity of the vampire, the association of the vampire with the "global exotic" and current concerns about wayward youth and the family.
Softbound (1995)--Order Now |
Blood and Roses: Vampires in 19th Century Literature
by Adele O. Gladwell (Editor)
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lautramont, Count Stenbock, J-K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Thophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J.M.Ryder.
Softbound (1999)--Order Now |
Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
by Joan Gordon (Editor), Veronica Hollinger (Editor), Brian W. Aldiss
Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. Blood Read examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars and shows how these transformations reflect ongoing changes in postmodern culture.
Softbound (1997)--Order Now |
The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature
by Leonard G. Heldreth (Editor), Mary Pharr (Editor)
The essays in this volume use a humanistic viewpoint to explore the evolution and significance of the vampire in literature from the Romantic era to the millennium. The nineteenth-century engendered aristocratic but parasitic vampires like Lord Ruthven and Carmilla Karnstein, and the century ended with the creation of Dracula, whose enduring popularity confirmed humanity's fascination with vampire mythology. Now, more than one hundred years later, the vampire has proliferated in literature in a variety of guises--some antagonistic, some heroic, and many falling into a fascinating "in between." If Stephen King's Kurt Barlow is still a monstrous villain and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain a true hero, then Anne Rice's re-coded vampires, Fred Saberhagen's re-created Dracula, S. P. Somtow's fragmented Timmy Valentine, and Nancy A. Collins's dangerous Sonja Blue are among those who seem both heroic and antagonistic. Like the ancient vampires of India (also examined in this volume), modern and postmodern literary vampires defy easy labels.
Hardcover (1999)--Order Now Softbound (1999)--Order Now |
The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night
Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
by International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 1997 Ft. lauderdale, FL
Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. In The Vampyre (1819), John Polidori introduced Lord Ruthven and established the vampire craze of the 19th century that resulted in a flood of German vampire poetry, French vampire drama, and British vampire fiction. That tradition culminated in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), which fixed the character of the Transylvanian nobleman firmly in the public imagination. The contributors to this volume examine representations of the vampire in fiction, film, folklore, and popular culture. While some look at Stoker and the early literary vampire, others study the works of contemporary writers, such as Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS, and racial issues in such films as Blacula and Vampire in Brooklyn.
Hardcover (2002)--Order Now |
The Vampire As Numinous Experience: Spiritual Journeys With The Undead In British And American Literature
by Beth E. McDonald
The critical work examines the vampire as a spiritual figure—whether literal or metaphorical—analyzing how the use of the vampire in literature has served to convey both a human sense of alienation from the divine and a desire to overcome that alienation. While expressing isolation, the vampire also represents the transcendent agent through which individuals and societies must confront questions about innate good or evil, and belief in the divine and the afterlife.
Textual experiences of the numinous in the form of the vampire propel the subject on a spiritual journey involving both psychological and religious qualities. Through this journey, the reader and the main character may begin to understand the value of their existence and the divine. A variety of works, poetry and fiction by British and American authors, is discussed, with particular concentration on Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, as representative of the Romantic, Victorian, and late twentieth century periods of literature. A conclusion looks at the future of the literary vampire.
Softbound (July 2004)--Order Now |
Vampires: A Bloodthirsty History in Art and Literature
by Diana Phillips-Summers, Daniel Ackerman (Illustrator)
Combining encyclopedic content with stunning images, this ode to vampires includes historical accounts from various cultures, striking photos and artwork, and literary passages on vampires. Revealed are pictures of vampires on Stone-Age cave walls, in the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs, in Chinese drawings on porcelain vessels, and in sculptures produced by the ancient civilizations of Central and South America. Discussed are the origins of this phenomenon, the reasons why vampires attract both fans and revilers, and the identities of the most famous vampires in literature and art. Diana Phillips-Summers holds a degree in anthropology.
Softbound (August 2003)--Order Now |
Psychoanalysis and Sovereignty in Popular Vampire Fictions
by Anna Powell
This book explores the uncanny modalities of eroticism in vampire literature and film. It critiques the predominant approaches to a body of texts which depict sovereignty and the will to power, and considers the shortcomings of the overwhelming focuses on sexuality in current Gothic studies, present the vampire instead as a popular cultural version of transgressive human sovereignty. The theoretical trajectory interfaces literary, cinematic, cultural studies, and continental philosophy, and engages with psychoanalysis, and proposes a metaphysics of vampire fantasy.
Hardcover (Feb. 2003)--Order Now |
The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Interview With the Vampire
by Alain Silver, James Ursini
Taking a thematic rather than a purely chronological approach, this third edition of a classic vampire movie reference includes obscure as well as well-known titles in order to reflect "the richness and variety" of works that fall under its aegis. Following a brief survey of vampire lore, historical "vampires," and vampires in literature and pop culture, the authors explore vampire films under such rubrics as "The Male Vampire," "The Female Vampire," "Emerging Traditions," "The Multimedia Vampire,"and "The Vampire at the Millennium."... Readable and informative for the casual vampire flick fan or the serious film student, THE VAMPIRE FILM will be a useful addition to nearly any vampire fan's bookshelf.--reviewed by Cathy Krusberg for The Vampyre's Crypt No. 18
Softbound (1997)--Order Now |
The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature
by James B. Twitchell
A study of vampire themes in Romantic literature in English. Includes chapters on the female vampire, male vampires in poetry, vampire prose (including Dracula) and a discussion of the artist as vampire.
Softbound (1981)--Order Now |
![]()
Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, And The Popular Imagination
by Jorg Waltje
What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todorov and arrives at a model of the vampire as the perfect representative of genre for a variety of reasons-the vampire figure appeals to its audience because of an interdependency of looplike mental and narrative structures that lure both reader and writer incessantly back to the genre. At the same time, this book provides the reader with a thorough survey of literary and filmic vampires in both adult and juvenile fictions. Lastly, it blends the realms of legal and literary history by highlighting the changes the image of the serial killer, a close relative of the vampire, underwent at the end of the twentieth century. Blood Obsession is a highly enlightening study for the general reader as well as for students of film, literature, and popular culture.
Softbound (January 2005)--Order Now |
.com!
|
