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Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher : Visionary Living, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1942157908
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Vampires Among Us written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and published by Visionary Living, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257099191
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Shadows of Evil-the vampires among us written by Patrick Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felicitas Schott
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3961162441
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Undead Among Us - The Figure of the Vampire as the "Unknown Other" and Its Representation in "True Blood" written by Felicitas Schott and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial point and working hypothesis Drakul. Nosferatu. Upyr. Vampyre. There have been many names for what we know today as the vampire. It is believed that the existence of the vampires goes back in time for almost one thousand years. At least since Bram Stoker’s successful novel Dracula from 1897, almost everyone is familiar with the image of the walking undead that creeps out of its coffin at night and sucks the blood out of humans. Today’s American popular culture makes it even inevitable to not be faced with vampires on television, in advertisement, on cereal boxes, or even in educational programs for children. The undead has always been appealing to viewers especially of the horror and fantasy genre. Zombies, ghosts, demons, mummies, and vampires have been present in movies and on television ever since the invention of the motion picture at the turn of the twentieth century. It is the “otherness” of such monsters, their frightful darkness and exoticism that makes them so interesting. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a striking popularity of the undead figure of the vampire in American popular culture is particularly notable. Since F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece Nosferatu in 1922, it is not possible anymore to imagine cinema and television without these nocturnal creatures. The vampire has always been serving as a metaphor for something strange, for anxieties and hidden desires in society. What it has in common with other undead figures in American popular culture is its representation as a monster. The vampires’ “otherness”, their mystical darkness, hypnotizing men, seducing women, longing for life and its taste in human blood – that is what makes the figure of the vampire so extraordinary fascinating and engaging to today’s movie and television audience. This thesis deals with the figure of the vampire regarded as the “unknown other” and how it is fictionally represented in the American TV series True Blood (2008 - ). The thesis argues that the figure of the vampire in postmodern American popular culture lost some of its “otherness” to a certain extent and cannot be regarded as a “monster” per se anymore.
Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852864736
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Vampires Among Us written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and published by . This book was released on 1993-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, vampires have been the stuff of myth and legend, dreams and nightmares. Now, a journalist and psychic investigator reveals the secret lives of modern-day vampires. Based on interviews and first-person accounts, this book tell of the bizzare double lives of many men and women.
Author : Joseph P. Laycock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Vampires Today written by Joseph P. Laycock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists. In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come "out of the coffin," as followers of a "religion" or "lifestyle" or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define "normal" and what it means to be human.
Author : Mark Benecke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783935977753
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Vampires Among Us written by Mark Benecke and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Vampires Among Us! written by Hugh Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adriana Groza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477024
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Transylvanian Vampires written by Adriana Groza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401201463
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Vampires written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of media is often a telling signifier of the fears and expectations of a culture or community and the way that it perceives itself; and others. The volume’s essays offer a fascinating insight into both vampires themselves and the cultures that envisage them.
Author : William Patrick Day
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081314812X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture written by William Patrick Day and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 looks at how vampire stories -- from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films 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 current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
Author : Michael Guarneri
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474458130
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 written by Michael Guarneri and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975.
Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438130015
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters and shape-shifters have always held a special fascination in mythologies, legends, and folklore the world over. From ancient customs to famous cases of beasts and vampires and their reflections in popular culture, 600 entries provide definitions, explanations, and lists of suggested further reading.
Author : Ruth Owen
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617727229
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Vampires and Other Bloodsuckers written by Ruth Owen and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of vampire lore, famous vampires, and possible explanations.
Author : Meredith Woerner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101159480
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Vampire Taxonomy written by Meredith Woerner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that millions have read and seen Twilight, where do they turn for vampire advice? This wry, witty, fully illustrated, and bloody essential guide. Vampires are all around-books, movies, TV, comics- infiltrating our culture like never before. But what happens if one should run into a real vamp on the street? Vampire Taxonomy is the best defense against a fatal encounter in the dark. For the reader's protection, Meredith Woerner reveals the truth about: ?Sunlight sensitivity-Do vamps venture out in the day or stick solely to the evening hours? ?Physiology-When ready to feed, do they change appearance or simply lure with the seductive flash of a fang? ?Dress-Are they decked out in leather with aspirations of becoming the first vampire rock stars or do they cling to Gothic robes and ruffled collars? ?Diet-Are they waging a never-ending struggle against the temptation of human blood or do they view the world as their personal blood buffet?
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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620830
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
Author : Joni Richards Bodart
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810882272
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill written by Joni Richards Bodart and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial, since they look at aspects of life and human nature that adults prefer to keep hidden from teenagers. But this is also why they are so important: They provide a literal example of how ignoring life's hazards won't make them go away and demonstrate that ignorance of danger puts one at greater risk. In They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction Joni Bodart examines six different monsters--vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, unicorns, angels, and demons--in YA literature. Bodart first discusses the meaning of these monsters in cultures all over the world. Subsequent chapters explore their history and most important incarnations, comparing the same kind of creatures featured in different titles. This volume also contains interviews with authors who provide additional insight and information, and the bibliography includes a comprehensive list of titles featuring the various monsters. Analyzing the most important and well-written series and titles for teens, They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill will be useful for parents, teachers, and anyone else hoping to understand why teens want to read books in this genre and what some of the benefits of reading them might be.
Author : Tanja Neise
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1071509314
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The Dark Vampire written by Tanja Neise and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second and final part of the Vampire Wars saga! Seattle, 2123 After Robert and Olivia fall in love, they come to realise that they now have far more to worry about than Olivia’s altered genes. Meanwhile, Anne suddenly finds herself interested in Dark, the vampire, who does more than confuse her. But none of them have the time for new-found love; the four of them are not only being pursued by a powerful, ancient vampire, but other enemies, too, who are just as dangerous. Can the four of them defy the perils together and find happiness?
