Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Paperback. First Edition. Large 8vo. xv, 264 pp, Foreword: Vampiresd: The Ancient Fear by Brian Aldiss; Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger; Part I. Reading History: 2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed by Nina Auerbach; 3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door by Jules Zanger; 4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction by Margaret L Carter; 5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother by Joan Gordon. Partr II. Reading the Writers: 6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas; 7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood; 8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction by Jowelle Gomez. Part III. Reading Consumption: 9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire by Sandra Tomc; 10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reason by Nicola Nixon; 11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld by Rob Latham. Part IV. Reading the Other: 12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins by Miriam Jones; 13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction by Trevor Holmes; 14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire by Mari Kotani; 15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampira by Veronica Hollinger; notes, works cited, films cite, index, list of contributors. First Edition, 1997. "This book explores the many transformations the figure of the vampire has undergone and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age." Only the faintest edge wear, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Illustrated wrappers..